Posted by lawrence k on 05/18/06 05:54

I'm a little weak on my basic I/O. Help me out please.

Is it right to say that I can just open any file with file(), get it as
a string, and then store in a MySql database, in, say, a MediumText
field? I realize that MySql supports binary fields, but my current
MySql schema does not have any binary fields, and I'm wondering if I
can store the file without changing my current schema.

Can I recreate the file later, if I wish, just be grabbing the string
out of the database and writing it to disk? (on a Linux system)

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