PHP form & MySQL

[helppy]

I have a form that has a field and a button browse.

I will click on the browse button to search for the image (in the computer) that i want, then I will click submit and it will store into my database.

However what is stored in the database is the address (location of the image: eg C:\myimage.jpg).

I don't the address to be stored but really the image itself.

Help!!!

[drifter]

well first of all in 99% of the times you will not want to put the image in the database, you will want to put it in a file and maybe store a path to the image.

[helppy]

ok. noted.

So if i store it as a path in the database, how to i retrieve the image.

I want to use computer 1 to upload the image. Next, I will then use computer 2 to view the image. How do i retrieve it from the database the image's address/path then display out the image in computer 2?

Need some help in codes.

Thanks.

[drifter]

do you need to retreive it for processing or display on the web? guess I am not sure what you are doing here.

[helppy]

Retrieve it for processing and displaying.

My database only stores the address of the image.

When i want to retrieve the image from the database, i can't get it cos there is only the address of the image.

[JasonLewis]

you can store images in databases but its not really that good. but do what drifter is saying, upload the file to your server (if you dont want to then go for the storing in database) then in you db add the link to where the file was uploaded...

[drifter]

you know even if your file is on another server, you can call it with a file_get_contents(),copy() or most of the other commands depending on how you have yours servers set up. This is how you gram images from the net - then you can process it.