Question

I’ve create a table where I’ve saved images through “BLOB”. I need to show those images along with other items. But I don’t know how to show those images together in the same page.
Here’s my php code that displays other things in form of a table. Similarily, I wanted to display images accordingly. Any help?

<?php
                $display_query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM eportal");

                    echo "<table id='pageTable'><thead><tr><th>Item code</th><th>Description</th><th>Cost</th></tr></thead>";
                    echo "<tbody>";
                    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($display_query)){
                        print "<tr><td>".$row['itemid']."</td><td>".$row['description']."</td><td>";
                        print "&#8377;".$row['cost']."</td></tr>";
                    }
                    echo "</tbody>";
                    echo "</table>";
                    mysql_close($connection);

                ?>

Answer 1

As other people mentioned, storing the images in the database is usually a bad idea.

Images are not transmitted in the same HTTP response with another page data.

To show images from the database, you would need to implement a script which, given the item id, would read the field and send the image’s binary data; and provide the path to the script in your form’s <img src="">:

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($display_query)){
    print "<tr><td>".$row['itemid']."</td><td>".$row['description']."</td><td>";
    print "&#8377;".$row['cost']."</td><td>";
    print "<img src=\"image.php?id=".$row['id']."\"></td></tr>";

}

image.php is another script which outputs the value of image_blob given the eportal.id. You would also need to provide correct size and mime type in the headers.

You better just store the images in a file (accessible by the web server) and store the path fo the file in the database.