Hello everybody,
in short words: I want to upload a binary data with a html form, handle it with a perl script and store it in a mysql blob field. I have created an upload-form with html: 
<form action="upload_process.pl" method="post" enctype="multipart/form
+-data">
<input type="file" name="myfile" accept="text/*" maxlength="2097152">
<!-- hier beliebige andere Felder -->
<input type="submit" value="RESSOURCE" name="action"><input type="rese
+t">
</form>

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And now, I want to insert the file in a mysql database (blob field). Here is the upload_process script: 
    ...
    my $q = new CGI;
    my $file = $q->param("myfile");
    binmode $file;
    &insertRessource( $name, $entryid, $file, $mime );
#all parameters are available

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And here is the insert function: 
sub insertRessource
{
    my $name = $_[0];
    my $entryid = $_[1];
    my $file = $_[2];
    my $mime = $_[3];
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare('insert into ressource (name, entryID ,dat
+a, mime) values (?,?,?,?)');
    $sth->execute($name, $entryid, $file, $mime) or die $!;
    $sth->finish;
    $dbh->disconnect;
}

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This code is working but - sadly - not correct ;) I can see blob-data in the binary field but it contains only the filename of the uploaded document (about 7 Bytes). Can anybody help me? Thanks miggel15

In reply to How to manage post binary upload with mysql blob fields by miggel15

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