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fbsql_create_blob

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

fbsql_create_blobCreate a BLOB

Description

string fbsql_create_blob ( string $blob_data [, resource $link_identifier ] )

Creates a BLOB from the given data.

Parameters

blob_data

The BLOB data.

link_identifier

A FrontBase link identifier returned by fbsql_connect() or fbsql_pconnect().

If optional and not specified, the function will try to find an open link to the FrontBase server and if no such link is found it will try to create one as if fbsql_connect() was called with no arguments

Return Values

Returns a resource handle to the newly created BLOB, which can be used with insert and update commands to store the BLOB in the database.

Examples

Example #1 fbsql_create_blob() example

<?php
$link 
fbsql_pconnect("localhost""_SYSTEM""secret")
    or die(
"Could not connect");
$filename "blobfile.bin";
$fp fopen($filename"rb");
$blobdata fread($fpfilesize($filename));
fclose($fp);

$blobHandle fbsql_create_blob($blobdata$link);

$sql "INSERT INTO BLOB_TABLE (BLOB_COLUMN) VALUES ($blobHandle);";
$rs fbsql_query($sql$link);
?>

See Also


FrontBase Functions
PHP Manual