Binary Data in MySQL [closed]
How do I store binary data in MySQL ? Mat The answer by phpguy is correct but I think there is a lot of confusion in the additional details there. The basic answer is in a BLOB data type / attribute domain. BLOB is short for Binary Large Object and that column data type is specific for handling binary data. See the relevant manual page for MySQL . For a table like this: CREATE TABLE binary_data ( id INT(4) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, description CHAR(50), bin_data LONGBLOB, filename CHAR(50), filesize CHAR(50), filetype CHAR(50) ); Here is a PHP example: <?php // store.php3 - by