Save Image, or only path?

SoulAssassin

Currently I upload an image to an image folder on my Server like so:

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</html>


$dest="thumbs/".$_FILES[userfile][name];
rename($_FILES[userfile][tmp_name],$dest);
$_FILES[userfile][width];
$_FILES[userfile][height];
echo "$userfile uploaded successfull";

It doesn't save my picture to my DataBase, and doesn't do any resizing once I view them. I followed a tutorial yesterday, and it didn't give me the result I wanted.

My question actually is, do I need a add on, or something else loaded before I can handle, and manage my images in php?

Blulagoon

Hi ya,

There is a whole load of things you can do with images with PHP:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php

You can tell if the GD library is installed from phpinfo()

From the above code, you might want to create a table for image_link, image_height and image_width. You've got the information there, so it can be inserted into the db right after you confirm that the upload was successful.

HTH - Blu

SoulAssassin

Great thanks for the guidance.

Houdini

It might be because it is binary data trying to be saved into a text data type, so you need to save binary data to a field in the database that expects ascii or utf-8. You might need to use a BLOB . It would be alot like trying to store lets say a telephone number into an integer data field, you can try it and as long as they dont input anything but integers it will save but if they enter oh (123) 456-7890 it would store a blank value because it is looking for numbers only.