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Graham M · 10-02-2009, 23:26

For pictures to be stored into a database they generally need to be converted from binary data to some sort of text format, generally they are encoded (like in an email) which tends to increase the size of the file somewhat! You'd be much better leaving the pictures where they are.

10-02-2009, 23:26	#20
Graham M - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Poole, Dorset Age: 40 Services: FreeSat+ Tivo V-Box VM 60MBit Posts: 13,365	Re: any PHP,Phpmyadmin and mysql experts here? For pictures to be stored into a database they generally need to be converted from binary data to some sort of text format, generally they are encoded (like in an email) which tends to increase the size of the file somewhat! You'd be much better leaving the pictures where they are.