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upload image to mysql database

ok... well basically i read this tutorial on spoono,
http://www.spoono.com/php/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=42

and it lets me add pictures from a folder on the server to the database (though there are kinks.. i can only to get it to do one image at a time... but thats irrelevant right now), i was wonderring if theres a way to do this directly from the client side... IE; have a form that will browse for the image name, then have another page which handles that form take the picture, encode it and put it in the database.

would i have to first upload that image to the server, then have it read it from whatever temporary folder, or would php be able to use its own cache to store it?

thanks for any help

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Dan

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

This goes over how to handle uploading files.

What most people do is save the image to a non-web-accessable directory, then give the file an md5'd name. You'd use mod_rewrite, so when your script accessed images/myimage.jpg, it actually went to /root/images/hfewjhf82j4893fh4893.jpg.

so it does first have to be uploaded somewhere seperate...and i do have to code it. ok. thanks=]

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