phatgreenbuds Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Not sure I am approaching this from the right angle. I have this sweet little flash/actionscript design that I am using for my family site. problem is its dependant on an XML file for the thumbnails and actual images that it displays. So I got the idea that I want to be able to have the inlaws and others upload images that would then dynamically update. So naturally I thought PHP and MySQL would be great for this. I fiugured out how to create the XML file from PHP everytime a page loads. That was the easy part. I have the code below that I used for a simple upload page. Its far from complete and I will put some security in it so no bashing yet. The point is it works for now. Using phpmyadmin I see the entry in the database and I thought I was nearly there. Now that I think about this I am not sure I did the right thing. I would actually need to upload the images to a directory on my server and instead of the image being placed in the database itself I should actually just put the path to the image. That way I can use that path to write back to the XML file that references the images...right? Am I thinking clearly here? The remaining issues I have are trying to duplicate the image uploaded and then resize it into a thumbnail. Not sure where to begin on that part...one step at a time. I have yet to figure out how to read the original image back into the web page so as a side note if someone could point me in the right direction there I would appreciate it. <?php require_once("../includes2/dbopen.php"); ?> <?php include("../functions2/functions.php"); ?> <html> <head> <title>Upload Your Pic</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="../stylesheets/styles.css" /> </head> <body> <strong><h3><a href="upload.php">Back to Main Menu</a><br></h3> <h4>Upload your pics here. Please keep the size reasonable. The bigger the file the longer it takes to upload and the slower it will be for others to view.</h4></strong> <hr> <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> Submitted By: <br> <input type="text" name="picsub" init value=""> <br><br> Description: <br> <textarea name="picdesc" cols="20" rows="5" init value=""></textarea> <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="20000000"> <br><br> File Name: <br> <input name="picname" type="file" id="picname"> <br><br> <input name="upload" type="submit" class="box" id="upload" value="Upload"> </form> <?php if(isset($_POST['upload']) && $_FILES['picname']['size'] > 0) { $fileName = $_FILES['picname']['name']; $tmpName = $_FILES['picname']['tmp_name']; $fileSize = $_FILES['picname']['size']; $fileType = $_FILES['picname']['type']; $sub = $_POST['picsub']; $desc = $_POST['picdesc']; $fp = fopen($tmpName, 'r'); $content = fread($fp, filesize($tmpName)); $content = addslashes($content); fclose($fp); if(!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $fileName = addslashes($fileName); } $query="INSERT INTO images (picname, picsize, pictype, picfile, picsubmit, picdesc) VALUES ('$fileName','$fileSize','$fileType','$content','$sub','$desc')"; $addpics = mysql_query($query); confirm_query($addpics); //calls to a function in the functions file. echo "<br>"; echo "<h4>$fileName was successfully added.</h4>"; echo "<hr>"; } ?> </body> </html> <?php include("../includes2/dbclose.php"); ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSkyIS Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 instead of the image being placed in the database itself I should actually just put the path to the image. That way I can use that path to write back to the XML file that references the images...right? yes. The remaining issues I have are trying to duplicate the image uploaded and then resize it into a thumbnail. Not sure where to begin on that part...one step at a time. there are a number of threads on this topic on the first page of the forums now. just gotta poke around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatgreenbuds Posted September 23, 2007 Author Share Posted September 23, 2007 Thanks...I thought I knew but wanted to make sure. This will actually solve the issue of reading the image back but will keep me dependant on that actionscript. Is it possible or advisable to store images in the table and then read them back into a web page? I would think you have to so something with headers otherwise you end up with a bunch of jibberish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSkyIS Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 if you store the image in a directory, all you have to do is use a plain old HTML <IMG> tag: <IMG SRC='/image_directory/image_name.gif'> To answer your question more fully: It is NOT advisable to store images in a database except for rare, specific cases. And yes, when reading images from a database and sending them to a browser you do typically have to prefix the binary data with header information so the browser can correctly interpret the image data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdRock Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 The way I do it is just store the image name and extension in the database i.e. image.jpg Then i just call the image like this <img src="images/<?php echo $row['image']; ?>" alt="" /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatgreenbuds Posted September 24, 2007 Author Share Posted September 24, 2007 Thats pretty much what I am planning to do. before i was actually storing the image in the table itself and was not able to read it back as an image. it messed with my head for a minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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