How to store images in databases like mysql or oracle?

Question

I want to store images in a database. How this can be done using a Php page.

Answer 1

It's not a good idea to store images in DB because the database gets very huge with relatively a small amount of tupels. Store the path to your image on the filesystem in a column of your table instead. That keeps your databases size smaller. database is for data and a filesystem is for files (as their name already indicates).

If you still want to store images in database. Store images content ( file_get_contents($yourImageFile) ) in a column of type BLOB .

Answer 2

You can save image names to DB and you can use them in your application. Don't forget to put path before the image.