Pass image to database in PHP

Question

How can pass the image in database in php?

Answer 1

Declare a field in the database as BLOB

Read the file with fread, escape it with the database-appropriate escape_string function, then store it like any other string.

Answer 2

You must create a two fields in DB (file_name, md5_file). File dispose on server. If you add to DB a row with new photo, you check hash of new file, and compare him with DB's hash. And it is very good to rename photo_file to unique name.