PHP-SQL: Uploaded image displaying as junk text [duplicate]

Answer 1

Something like this as your echo statement "should" work with your current implementation.

//echo 'Cover:' .$row['sleeve'] .'<br>'; 
echo '<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,'.base64_encode( $row['sleeve'] ).'"/>';

However @Noor is correct, storing images like this is not very efficient.

Answer 2

You are doing it the wrong way. Don't save images in database as it is not a good practice. Just save the uploaded image in a directory and save the path to that image in database. It would save you some database space and search time.

Here is some sample code

<?php
$target_dir = "uploads/";
$target_file = $target_dir . basename($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["name"]);
$uploadOk = 1;
$imageFileType = pathinfo($target_file,PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
// Check if image file is a actual image or fake image
if(isset($_POST["submit"])) {
    $check = getimagesize($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["tmp_name"]);
    if($check !== false) {
        echo "File is an image - " . $check["mime"] . ".";
        $uploadOk = 1;
    } else {
        echo "File is not an image.";
        $uploadOk = 0;
    }
}
?>

Refer to http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp for help