buffered image into db?

[sonofslim]

i'm writing an app that allows users to upload images and save them in a MySQL database. there's some image verifying and resize/resampling that happens between upload & insert. here's a pseudo-code outline of what happens:

//image uploaded
//various safety checks
imageCopyResampled(...); // dst_image = 'new.jpg'
imagejpg('new.jpg', 'fileout.jpg'); 
$fh = fopen('fileout.jpg', 'rb');
$contents = fread($fh, filesize($fh));
fclose($fh);
//mysql insert($contents)
unlink('fileout.jpg');

it seems long-winded to save fileout.jpg and then reopen it with fopen. is there a way to just put whatever imageCopyResampled or imagejpg returns into a variable that i can then pass straight to the insert statement?

thanks!

[weekender]

you can use output buffering around the image output functions to capture the data (instead of dumping it to the screen) then put the data straight into the db

ob_start();
imagejpeg(...);
$imagedata = ob_get_clean();

hope that helps!

adam

[sonofslim]

that did it -- thanks! i'm already buffering the ouput, but i didn't realize you could nest buffers.