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Easily save images and files to a database

written 4831 days ago

Storing images directly in databases has its pros and cons but the purpose of this article isn’t to argue one method over the other. This article will simply show you how POG can be used to easily store image files into your database, along with any meta data you wish to attach to the image such as date, size etc.

First, create a file upload form:

<form method="post" action="upload.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">

<input type="file" name="image_name"/>

<input type="submit" value="upload image"/>

</form>

Second, generate an ImageStore object with the following attributes:

image_data (LONGBLOB)

image_type (VARCHAR(50))

image_description (VARCHAR(255))

Third, paste the following code in upload.php:

$imageData = file_get_contents($_FILES['image_name']['tmp_name']);

$imageType = file_get_contents($_FILES['image_name']['type']);

$imageStore = new ImageStore();

$imageStore -> image_data = $imageData;

$imageStore -> image_type = $imageType;

$imageStore -> image_description = "an image";

if ($imageStore -> Save())

{

 echo "image successfully saved";

}

and saving an image to a database is as simple as that. You’ve now stored the uploaded picture in a database table.

Retrieving the image is also pretty easy:

header("Content-type: ".$imageStore->image_type);

echo $imageStore -> image_data;

Download this zip file containing the source code for more details.

If by now, you don’t know how to run the code samples we regularly provide, download and watch the tutorial video here

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— jan Dec 10, 11:46 PM #

This is a weblog about the Php Object Generator (POG) project, OO PHP, databases and Php code generators in general.

Php Object Generator, (POG) is an open source PHP code generator which automatically generates clean & tested Object Oriented code for your PHP4/PHP5 application.

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