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[Hans Zaunere]

--- Bill Patterson <patterson at computer.org> wrote:
> Has anyone found a practical way to store .GIF files in Oracle (8i)
> using PHP?

Oracle is practical?  :)

> If so, please get in touch.  I am trying to do it and keep running
> into one problem or another.  Thanks.

You need the DB field to be BLOB (Binary Large OBject).  You'll need to
ensure that the functions you use are binary safe, but most PHP
functionality in this repsect is (whether OCI/MySQL/etc).  If you are
using Oracle, the [bind?] functions are made for this, although there
are other ways.

H



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