Storing then displaying image from database

Hi, wondering if somebody can tell me where I'm going wrong (I'm new to all of this). I have the following php code which uploads an image file into my database:

    //Connect to database
    include 'Resources/Include/db.inc.php';

    $tmp=$_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
    //get users IP
    $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

    //Don't do anything if file wasn't selected
    if (!empty($tmp)) {

    //Copy file to temporary folder
    copy($tmp, "./temporary/".$ip."");

    //open the copied image, ready to encode into text to go into the database
    $filename1 = "./temporary/".$ip;
    $fp1 = fopen($filename1, "rb");

    //record the image contents into a variable
    $contents1 = fread($fp1, filesize($filename1));

    $contents1 = addslashes($contents1);

    //close the file
    fclose($fp1);

    $ftype = $_FILES['image']['type'];

    //insert information into the database
    if(!mysql_query("INSERT INTO LetterImages (Data,Type,LetterID,Page)"." VALUES ( '$contents1', '$ftype',1,1)")){
    echo mysql_error();
    }

    //delete the temporary file we made
    unlink($filename1);

    }

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This seems to work ok, as when I go to the LetterImages table there is now an additional row with a file in the blob field. I then have the following code which is supposed to display the image:

$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM LetterImages WHERE LetterID=1 AND Page=1");

    //fetch data from database
    $sqldata=mysql_fetch_array($result);

    $encoded=stripslashes($sqldata['Data']);
    $ftype=$sqldata['Type'];

    //tell the browser what type of image to display
    header("Content-type: $ftype");

    //decode and echo the image data
    echo $encoded;

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Instead of displaying an image, however, this just displays pages and pages of incomprehensible data. Can anybody tell me where I'm going horribly wrong?

 

I'm not sure if this is going to fix your problem, but one line caught my eye:

$contents1 = addslashes($contents1);

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You have to figure out going back to original data afterwards when you return the image data

 

Isn't that what this line does:

$encoded=stripslashes($sqldata['Data']);

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ahh, I wonder how I didn't notice it

Can you try to echo the $ftype variable and see what it says ?

 

It says "image/jpeg" (obviously without the quotes)

 

I'm not sure, can you try without the addslashes/stripslashes just in case to see if it works like that ?

 

I tried it without the addslashes but it won't upload like that, it says there is a mysql syntax error

 

One question... why in the WORLD do you want to upload the images into the database? Why not just upload them to a file-structure (folder on the webhost), and then put a LINK to said file in the database? Reduces overhead by a ton, and provides a manageable db-size...