Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 09/14/07 11:17

Captain Paralytic wrote:
> On 14 Sep, 11:55, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
>> Ok. what I want to do, is have pictures as BLOBS in a database.
>>
>> And show them onscreen.
>>
>> If I have a generic program called say - showpic.php - which is capable
>> of spitting out an image suitable for downloading, and I write a bit of
>> HTML like
>>
>> <IMG URL="showpic.php?id=1112233456">Picture of item 1112233456</IMG>
>>
>> where the id is and index to the actual picture I want, for example,
>> will that work?
>
> It will only work if the script executed from showpic.php reads the
> data from the database and sends it with the correct headers to the
> browser.
>
Thanks buddy!

That is down to debugging, that's all.

How does the browser know if its a jpeg or a gif? Mime type I guess? OK.
That all makes sense.

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