> On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 12:50 PM, Scott Taylor wrote: > > > Hello all, > > Howdy. > > > I have a database with JPEGs stored in a blob field and I want to > > display them on an HTML web page with out creating a new > file.jpg for > > each connection. > > > > I'm currently hunting on Google, but I have no idea where > to start. I > > use Apache 1.3.27, Perl 5.6.1 with DBI->DBD::Interbase on Linux 2.4 > > machine. I'm quite comfortable with Perl, DBI, CGI and HTML. > > > > Any direction, documentation, script examples, etc. would be great. > > I know of no way to do this, so I'll leave it to others to provide a > clever solution. > > However, when I was learning SQL, this is one of the reasons > they told > us not to store binaries in database fields. I was taught that it's > better to use the filesystem for that kind of thing and just > store the > document name in the database. I have no idea if you have any choice > about this, but there's my not terribly helpful tip, if you do. > > James >
James advice is sound, however if you can't/won't avoid it... use CGI qw(header); use DBI; my $dbh = ... print header('image/jpeg'); my($jpegguts) = $dbh->selectrow_array('SELECT jpegguts FROM myimg WHERE id = 35'); print $jpegguts; HTH DMuey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]