<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >fbsql_create_blob</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="FrontBase Functions" HREF="ref.fbsql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="fbsql_connect" HREF="function.fbsql-connect.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="fbsql_create_clob" HREF="function.fbsql-create-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" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-connect.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-create-clob.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.fbsql-create-blob" ></A >fbsql_create_blob</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN23522" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)</P >fbsql_create_blob -- Create a BLOB</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN23525" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >fbsql_create_blob</B > ( string blob_data [, resource link_identifier])<BR ></BR ><P > Returns: A resource handle to the newly created blob. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >fbsql_create_blob()</B > creates a blob from blob_data. The returned resource handle can be used with insert and update commands to store the blob in the database. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN23539" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >fbsql_create_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"); $filename = "blobfile.bin"; $fp = fopen($filename, "rb"); $blobdata = fread($fp, filesize($filename)); fclose($fp); $blobHandle = fbsql_create_blob($blobdata, $link); $sql = "INSERT INTO BLOB_TABLE (BLOB_COLUMN) VALUES ($blobHandle);"; $rs = fbsql_query($sql, $link); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.fbsql-create-clob.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fbsql_create_clob()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.fbsql-read-blob.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fbsql_read_blob()</B ></A >, <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-connect.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.fbsql-create-clob.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >fbsql_connect</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.fbsql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >fbsql_create_clob</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >