Question

I have a SQL server database that has a varbinary(max) column that contains data for a bitmap image.
I need to display this data as an image on a PHP page.

Any idea how I would go about this? I havn’t found alot of information on the internet as to how to do it.

When I look at the data through the management studio, it looks like 0x42DBE3400000...,
whereas if I retrieve it thorugh ODBC and echo it to the screen, it looks like Qk2+NAAAAAAAAD4AAAAoAAAArgEAAPAAAAAB.

I havn’t worked very much with binary data before so I’m not sure what to do from here!
Any help appreciated

Answer 1

In order for the page to not look like garbled text, you will need to output a Content-Type header in order for the browser to recognize that the page is an image and not a text/html page.

<?php
header('Content-Type: image/x-bmp');

echo '{display the image's binary content here}';
?>