Excellent. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for: "Insert Into $PhotoTable (title, auth_id, description, category, body, cr_date, type) values ('$title', '$auth_id', '$desc', '$cat', '$image','$date','$type')"; I can hardly wait until the book I'm working through gets to where I can use this. Thanks >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/23/2001 9:54:57 AM >>> This is ancient, and I haven't tried it, but you may find it useful. --- /* Image Database Functions by: J. Patrick Ryans [EMAIL PROTECTED] July 1998 The following are provided niether with copyright or warranty. I do not believe that any of the code in this file is copyrighted by anyone else, but if it is, please let me know. I gathered these functions from a larger php3 project to manage a large and dynamic web site by keeping all html, images, and other file contained in a MySQL database. I couldn't find one single example that explained how to insert binary images into a database and then extract them and display it to the browser. The two major functions needed to load and display images are shown below, < Snipped >