amracel,

Begin with File Upload To Selected Directory. This should answer questions on writing the CGI to parse the form and place the data into a variable.

Then check this out MySQL: BLOB/TEXT. This should give you more understanding on MySQL blob(actually it is called TEXT).

And finally check out MySQL & DBI for standard connection code, and other mundane stuff.

And as a final word of caution IF the data that you are going to be putting into the TEXT/BLOB field is very large (like say 1 meg IMAGES!) your database will become HUGE, very very fast. In this case I would recomend simply writing the uploaded file to your webserver, and then placing a file pointer (non C++ reference! :-D )in a varchar filed (i.e. the link to the file such as "/home/httpd/htdocs/files/super_cool.txt") and then using the file pointer in your script.


HTH

-f o o g o d

--- ruining the bell curve for everyone else ---

In reply to Re: DBI file input to blob by foogod
in thread DBI file input to blob by amracel

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