Menno Brandsen writes: > I'm trying to insert (and retrieve) images into a mysql database I use a > standard upload form and a normal insert statement in the sql. > The output i get is this : <ZPublisher.HTTPRequest.FileUpload instance at > 86550c8> which is clearly not the correct data To get the file content, you call the object's "read" method: <dtml-sqlvar "uploadImage.read()" type=string> Dieter