How to store and retrieve images from database...

Q: What do you store in a database?

A: data

Q: what is an image?

A: data

So I'd say there is absolutely nothing special about storing images. The only thing is that you will want to store two things: the filename and the image data itself. Databases usually have a special data type for storing large amounts of binary data, such as the BLOB. Check your database documentation to figure out what your DBMS uses.

gimbal2a at 2007-7-14 18:57:01 >

> So I'd say there is absolutely nothing special about

> storing images. The only thing is that you will want

> to store two things: the filename and the image data

> itself.

And the content type(Jpg, Gif, png ... ect) of the image. Becouse it may be deficult/expensive to figure that out by looking at the image data on the runtime.

LRMKa at 2007-7-14 18:57:01 >