Re: Fw: Data from SQL to a string in a useable format

I will certainly give it a try... Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheridan Saint-Michel" <webmaster@foxjet.com> To: "php-general" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Fw: Data from SQL to a string in a useable format > This may be way out in left field... but since no one else seems to be > answering, > > Have you considered using something like base64_encode? > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php > > That would change your image to plaintext without any characters that need > to be escaped. > > The when you retrieve it you would just run it through base64_decode and > viola! > > I have never tried this, and like I said there may very well be a better > solution. > (Especially since the DB is usually the bottleneck and base64_encode > actually makes the file bigger) > > Let me know if that helps > Sheridan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jason Bell <jbell@barkingrat.com> > To: PHP Users <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:51 AM > Subject: [PHP] Fw: Data from SQL to a string in a useable format > > > Ok, never got a reply yesterday, so I figured I'd resend this..... can this > even be done? > __________________________________ > > How can I pull my data from my SQL db, and store it as a string so that it > can be used? Specificly, I'm working with images. > > When the images are stored in the database, the only pre-processing that is > done is: > > $img = addslashes(fread(fopen($userfile, "r"), filesize($userfile))); > > (* note: $userfile is the file identifier from my upload form.) > > I want to pull the data out of the database and store it in a string, so > that I can use imagecopyresampled to create a thumbnail, but I just can't > seem to get it to work.... > > please help!!!!!! > > Thanks, Jason > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >