I've done this before... I eventually figured out that the server's file
system is much, much, much better suited for managing image files than the
database. I suggest you use CFFILE to copy your images to the server and
simply store the path to them in the DB. Once that is done you can use
<CFCONTENT type="" file=""> to display.
Bryan Love ACP
Internet Application Developer
Telecommunication Systems Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carlisle, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 5:48 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Displaying an image with CFcontent
I'm trying to pull an image out on a database and display it without writing
a file to the disk. I tried this...
<cfcontent type="image/jpeg">
<cfoutput>#toBinary(Base64imageFromDatabase)#</cfoutput>
And, of course, cfoutput won't let me do this because it wants a string, not
a binary value. I could write the file to the disk, then display and delete
it (using cffile then cfcontent for the last 2 steps). I'd like to cut
those steps out, though. All those disk writes effect the performance of
this application. Is there any way I can go from the database to CFContent?
Thanks,
EC
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