PHP: Retrieve image from MySQL using PDO

Question

I am refactoring some old code, including rewriting basic mysql queries to use PDO.

The following works brilliantly in all browsers and for all image types:

Answer 1

My personal approach to Image Blobs is using a php file to serve the image, in combination with a GET argument... It's 100% effective and it doesn't involve file creation... For instance, the file to serve the image from the blob would be:

image.php:

prepare("SELECT image FROM image where imageid = ?");
    if ($result->execute(array($_GET['imageid']))) {
        $row=$result->fetch();
        echo $row['pic']; //this prints the image data, transforming the image.php to an image
        }
    } // you can put an "else" here to do something on error...
?>

This can be called from you main script... For instance: