I would do one of two things here:
1. add a size column to the db and have the image size added when
inserting the image
2. run a trash script (either sql if your version support subselects or a
little page) to get the size of
the image and enter it into the size field
Another option is to use
select *, (length(image_fiedl)/1024) as Kb from table [where clause] to get
the size
Bastien
From: Jordan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: PHP DB <php-db@lists.php.net>
Subject: [PHP-DB] var_dump and sizeof database entry?
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:19:43 -0600
Hello,
This is stumping me something awful. I have searched the archive of this
mailing list and google and the php and mysql websites with everything i
can think of.
I have a simple mysql table with some basic columns and a blob column that
holds an image file. What I need to get is the size of this image file for
use with an rss feed (the enclosure "length" parameter).
In the simplest case, I thought I would just read the entire blob into a
variable, and then I would be able to get the size of this variable.
However, php does not seem to have a function to do this. Inexplicably,
the "var_dump" command will actually dump the information I want, but it
is very memory inefficient, because I get something like:
["preview"]=> string(17888) "ENTIRE CONTENTS OF BLOB HERE"
where all I really want is the 17888 value (for a 17.5 KB file).
What I was wondering is if there is a simple way to get this information
from mysql directly without having to 1) select the blob column and 2) do
a var_dump with output buffering and parsing for the parenthetical file
size, which seems very inefficient to me.
any insight is greatly appreciated.
Jordan
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