can't figure out why binary insert won't work

[cybercookie72]

greetings all

 

I have a project that requires me to have an image in the db (i know...not the best thing to do from what I am told). 

 

I have found some sample code on the net that I have been working with but can not seem to get the insert to work in the table I am using.  The sample code works fine with the sample table ...  but when I change to try and get it to insert in my table it does not work.  The sample table specs are in the code and here is my table::

CREATE TABLE art_tb

(

picture longblob NOT NULL,

title varchar(20) NOT NULL,

disc varchar(200) DEFAULT NULL,

date_created DATE,

catagory varchar(20),

user_id int(4),

date_posted DATE

);

 

I did get it to work earlier and was able to insert into the picture and title (there are two rows with info in those columns) but I changed something and am dead in the water again.

 

 

thank you in advance for any and all help..

I am pretty new to php so please explain as much as possable. 

I am trying to get something like this to work so that I can pull information from a form::

//desc is key word so i used disc

 

mysql_query ("insert into art_tb (picture, title, disc, date_created, catagory, user_id, date_posted) values (". $image .", ". $_REQUEST[whatsit] .", 'techno pic', now(), 'Technology', 1, now())");

 

here is the code I am working on now that is more like the original code just the two columns::

 

mysql_query ("insert into art_tb (title, picture) values (".

                $_REQUEST[whatsit].

                ", ".

                $image.

                ")");

 

I am not sure what I did right to get the two inserts to work and I have no clue what I did to break it.  Here is the test page code...it is all in one php file called index.php:::

 

 

 

 

 

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[Mchl]

Do yo get any error messages? Try mysql_error to echo sql errors if they happen.

 

mysql_query("/*query here*/") or die(mysql_error());

[cybercookie72]

yes? something ugly???

 

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '\0JFIF\0\0\0\0\0\0ÿþ\0>CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), default ' at line 1

 

any clue as to what that error means? 

 

by the way thank you for the reply...

[cybercookie72]

OK I did an echo before the mysql_query and saw that the image gets sent like:::

 

insert into art_tb (picture, title, disc, date_created, catagory, user_id, date_posted)

values (ÿØÿà\0JFIF\0\0\0\0\0\0ÿþ\0>CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), default quality ÿÛ\0C\0

 

 

with A LOT MORE of the funny text. There are TONS of slashes in there, would they be causing the error? Do I need to format the query with slashes something like this?

 

 

 

mysql_query ("insert into art (picture, title, disc, date_created, catagory, user_id, date_posted) values (\"". $image."\", \"".$_REQUEST[whatsit]."\", 'techno pic', now(), 'Technology', 1, now())");

 

 

 

[Mchl]

Sorry, Not much time right now, but you might want to take a look at this

 

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2000/09/15/php_mysql.html?page=1