Question

I am developing an e-Commerce website for my academic project and I need to show products in my home page. I need to show all my products from the database. For my images of products I thought one simple way. I will store the paths for every image in the table of products in my database under, a column product_image.

Product_Id   Product_Name   Product_Description        Product_Image              Product_Price  Product_Stock
1            HeadFirstJava  Java Programming Language  c:\products\headfirst.jpg  330            30

But when I am retrieving all the products information from database in my JSP page, I am not getting any images. I checked database the image paths are stored without backslashes.

What is the problem? How do I store those paths?

Answer 1

When you want to insert values with backslash using PHP, C# and any other, be sure to escape it another backlash.

if you try to insert this value, surely it will fail:

$value = "C:\Windows\Addins";

but this one is fine:

$value = "C:\\Windows\\Addins";