Question

i want to store an image in database not by inserting but by updating (by using UPDATE query).

Everything else is updated successfully but its not storing image. I’m using medium blob data type to store image.

Here is my code:

update-profile.php:

  <form id="form" method="post" action="update-profile-action.php"   enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <label for="Fname">First Name:</label> <input type="text" id="Fname" class="text"  value="<?php echo $firstname; ?>" name="Fname" /> <br /><br />
     <label for="Lname">Last Name:</label> <input type="text" id="Lname" class="text"    value="<?php echo $lastname; ?>" name="Lname" /><br /> <br />

<?php 
if ($_SESSION["type"]=="T")
{
?>        
    <label>Profile Image:</label> <input type="file" name="image" value="" /><br     />     <br />
     <label>Qualification:</label><textarea name="qualification" class="text"  id="qualification"><?php echo $qualification;?></textarea><br /><br />
    <label>Education & Teaching History:</label> <textarea name="briefintro"     class="text" id="intro"><?php echo $briefintro; ?></textarea><br /><br />
<?php
}
?>
    <input type="submit" class="mybutton" value="Update Profile" />

</form>

update-profile-action.php:

<?php include("../includes/config.php");?>
<?php
$Fname=$_POST["Fname"];
$Lname=$_POST["Lname"];
$image=$_POST["profileimg"];
$briefintro=$_POST["briefintro"];
$qualification=$_POST["qualification"];

$con=mysql_connect($dbserver,$dbusername,$dbpassword);
if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); }
mysql_select_db($dbname, $con);
$query=("UPDATE accounts SET firstname='".$Fname."' , lastname='".$Lname."' ,  profileimg='".$image."' ,  briefintro='".$briefintro."',    qualification='".$qualification."' WHERE id=".$_SESSION['id']);
$result = mysql_query($query);
header("Location: update-profile.php?status=3");
mysql_close($con);
?>

i copied only the related data from update-profile.php to making it more easy to read 🙂
any kind of help will be appreciated 🙂

Answer 1

Two problems:

You do not have an id for the input tag for the file. You need to change <input type="file" name="image" value="" /> to <input type="file" name="image" value="" id = "profileimage" />

Secondly you access files not via $_POST but rather via $_FILES.