Display image from sql

Question

I\'ve create a table where I\'ve saved images through \"BLOB\". I need to show those images along with other items. But I don\'t know how to show those images together in the sa

Answer 1

The debate of storing blobs versus storing a path to the image file on disk has been debated over and over again. Microsoft provides a research paper comparing the pros and cons of each here. With that said, to display a blob as an image you need to make a call to a separate page and output header information that tells the browser what type of image is stored.

For example:

connectToDatabase();

$sql = "SELECT image_blob FROM eportal;";

$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());  
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);

header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
echo $row['image_blob'];
$db->close();