Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/19/07 12:53

Henri wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:36:59 -0700, electric_r wrote:
>
>> Hallo,
>>
>> I have 2 questions:
>>
>> with php and mysql :
>>
>> 1) How can I insert a text file into a TEXT field of a table ?
>
> textarea value="<?php echo thefile; ?>" something like that
>

He's talking about a table in a SQL database.

>> 2) How can I insert a microsoft word file into a BLOB field of a table ?
>
> wouldn't it be more practical to just store the file's path instead of the file itself?

Not necessarily. Often times I'll store files in a database. A lot of
good reasons to do so (which should be discussed in a SQL newsgroup).

>> Please, could you help me with a simple example ?
>>
>> Thank you .
>>
>> Fab
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