Zebramoose

Thanks for your reply, but that unfortunately didn't help. I already have the "image/" stored in $image['image_mime'].

Hi! I am building a little PHP/MySQL application where pictures are uploaded and stored in MySQL in a longblob. These are special circumstances and storing images in the database in an absolute must. Uploading is working fine. The upload script inserts the following into the field `image_data`: base64_encode(file_get_contents($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'])) The problem is displaying the images. I cannot for the life of me make it work. I've tried the code on multiple systems with various versions of PHP and MySQL. I have two files: one called view.php and one called show.php. # view.php # It gets $info['id'] from a query getting the ID of the recent-most image uploaded. echo '<img src="show.php?id='.$info['id'].'" alt="" />'; # show.php # $id is determined by $_GET['id'] and passes through security checks I've omitted here. # There is zero (not even a whitespace) output before the header()s are sent. $query = "SELECT `image_data`,`image_mime`,`image_size` FROM `upload`.`files` WHERE `id` = '$id';"; $sql = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); $image = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql); header('Content-Type: ' . $image['image_mime']); header('Content-Length: ' . $image['image_size']); echo base64_decode($image['image_data']); The problem is that no image is displayed either in view.php or when I call show.php directly with a valid ID. I have verified that $image['image_mime'] and $image['image_size'] contain the right data. However, if I download show.php and change extension to for example .jpg, the image is there. So the image is stored correctly in the database and $image['image_data'] is outputting the right data. I even compared checksums for the image before and after and they're identical, so I would conclude that the error is in the outputting of the image - but I can't figure out what. Error_report is set to E_ALL but there's nothing useful coming out. Any ideas?