Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/06/07 11:35

pmz wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> I'm not sure what is going one with my software, but something really
> strange.
> I'm storing in BLOB in MySQL data of an image, which I display like:
>
> header("Content-Type: image/png");
> echo base64_decode($blobColumnData);
>
> Firefox/IE says, that the image cannot be displayed because it
> contains errors. I've tried setting header to image/jpeg, etc, with no
> results.
> At the end, I've just tried fwrite() the 'base64_decode($blobData)'
> into a file and display it in Gimp - with no problems, with no
> difference jpeg or png.
>
> What's wrong? Where shall I look for problems?
>
> Some system details:
> PHP Details:
> PHP 5.2.3 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Jul 27 2007
> 01:29:42)
> Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
> Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
>
> GD Details:
> gd-2.0.33_4,1
> php5-gd-5.2.0
> png-1.2.14
> jpeg-6b_4
>
> OS Details:
> FreeBSD drum.phpdev 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
>
> Thank you for help!
>
> All the best,
> Przemek M. Zawada
>

Why are you calling base64_decode()? Did you base64_encode() the image
before storing it in the database? If so, why?

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