Storing and Retrieving Images

Images are used in many Web applications. This section describes a couple of small scripts that provide you with the ability to load images into MySQL over the Web or from the command line. It also discusses a script that serves images over the Web by pulling them from the database. My reason for placing a section on image storage and retrieval at this point in the chapter is that we’ll need image-serving capability for the next section, which demonstrates how to write an electronic greeting card application. One feature of that application is that it enables users to select a picture to display with the card when the recipient views it.

Obviously, to implement that capability, we’ll need to be able to send images ...

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