You'll need to save as a blob, LONGBLOB datatype in mysql will work.
Ex:
CREATE TABLE 'test'.'pic' (
'idpic' INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
'caption' VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
'img' LONGBLOB NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY ('idpic')
)
As others have said, its a bad practice but it can be done. Not sure if this code would scale well, though.