<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >fbsql_read_blob</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual de PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="FrontBase Functions" HREF="ref.fbsql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="fbsql_query" HREF="function.fbsql-query.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="fbsql_read_clob" HREF="function.fbsql-read-clob.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual de PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-query.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-read-clob.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.fbsql-read-blob" ></A >fbsql_read_blob</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN18392" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)</P >fbsql_read_blob -- Read a BLOB from the database</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN18395" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >fbsql_read_blob</B > ( string blob_handle [, resource link_identifier])<BR ></BR ><P > Returns: A string containing the BLOB specified by blob_handle. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >fbsql_read_blob()</B > reads BLOB data from the database. If a select statement contains BLOB and/or BLOB columns FrontBase will return the data directly when data is fetched. This default behavior can be changed with <A HREF="function.fbsql-set-lob-mode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fbsql_set_lob_mode()</B ></A > so the fetch functions will return handles to BLOB and CLOB data. If a handle is fetched a user must call <B CLASS="function" >fbsql_read_blob()</B > to get the actual BLOB data from the database. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN18411" ></A ><P ><B >Ejemplo 1. <B CLASS="function" >fbsql_read_blob()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $link = fbsql_pconnect ("localhost", "_SYSTEM", "secret") or die ("Could not connect"); $sql = "SELECT BLOB_COLUMN FROM BLOB_TABLE;"; $rs = fbsql_query($sql, $link); $row_data = fbsql_fetch_row($rs); // $row_data[0] will now contain the blob data for teh first row fbsql_free_result($rs); $rs = fbsql_query($sql, $link); fbsql_set_lob_mode($rs, FBSQL_LOB_HANDLE); $row_data = fbsql_fetch_row($rs); // $row_data[0] will now contain a handle to the BLOB data in the first row $blob_data = fbsql_read_blob($row_data[0]); fbsql_free_result($rs); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.fbsql-create-blob.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fbsql_create_blob()</B ></A >, <B CLASS="function" >fbsql_read_blob()</B >, <A HREF="function.fbsql-read-clob.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fbsql_read_clob()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.fbsql-set-lob-mode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fbsql_set_lob_mode()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-query.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Inicio</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-read-clob.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >fbsql_query</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.fbsql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Subir</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >fbsql_read_clob</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >