I will certainly give it a try... Thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheridan Saint-Michel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "php-general" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Fw: Data from SQL to a string in a useable format
> This may be way out in left field... but since no one else seems to be
> answering,
>
> Have you considered using something like base64_encode?
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php
>
> That would change your image to plaintext without any characters that need
> to be escaped.
>
> The when you retrieve it you would just run it through base64_decode and
> viola!
>
> I have never tried this, and like I said there may very well be a better
> solution.
> (Especially since the DB is usually the bottleneck and base64_encode
> actually makes the file bigger)
>
> Let me know if that helps
> Sheridan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jason Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: PHP Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:51 AM
> Subject: [PHP] Fw: Data from SQL to a string in a useable format
>
>
> Ok, never got a reply yesterday, so I figured I'd resend this..... can
this
> even be done?
> __________________________________
>
> How can I pull my data from my SQL db, and store it as a string so that it
> can be used? Specificly, I'm working with images.
>
> When the images are stored in the database, the only pre-processing that
is
> done is:
>
> $img = addslashes(fread(fopen($userfile, "r"), filesize($userfile)));
>
> (* note: $userfile is the file identifier from my upload form.)
>
> I want to pull the data out of the database and store it in a string, so
> that I can use imagecopyresampled to create a thumbnail, but I just can't
> seem to get it to work....
>
> please help!!!!!!
>
> Thanks, Jason
>
>
>
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