Question

Does anyone know how to save an image into my SQLite db with Doctrine2? I already got a BLOB “pic_data” and a string “pic_type”, but how do i hava to go on?

Greetings,
BigTeddy

Answer 1

Do you really need to store the image in the DB? Can’t you store it in the file system.

See Storing Images in DB – Yea or Nay? for discussion about this.

You can just append the system timestamp (see php time() function) to the filename to make it unique.

$newFilename = time().'_'.$filename;

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