i get gibberish when displaying images

[yannis]

Hi all.
I am trying to display images from MySql and the come up giberish. I have stored them as blobs in the db. I have tried anything and I can't get this to work.
Can somebody help?
I have been trying for 4 days now and no luck!!!!

[stolzyboy]

you may wanna try putting this in the appropratie forum... also... storing the images on the filesystem rather than IN mysql is much easier to work with, imo

[Mordecai]

Definately don't store it in the database. Store the location to it on the local filesystem, then [man]readfile/man it out.

Anyways, you're most likely serving the image as [FONT=courier new]text/html[/FONT], when you need something like [FONT=courier new]image/jpeg[/FONT]. Make sure to change "jpeg" to whatever image format you're using, like "png" or "gif."

You'll need a line like the following:

header('Content-type: image/jpeg');