[Zope] mySQL image addition

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Grove [mailto:phil.grove@flg21.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 8:59 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] mySQL image addition
> 
> 
> hi all,
> 
> has anyone used mySQL to hold a number of images uploaded 
> using Zope? If so
> how can it be done, i have tried using the normal INSERT 
> statments into a
> BLOB field in the database but it only seems to insert a 
> strange instances
> string??
> 

Given that your image object is named 'image':

<!--#var image-->

will give you the object, in this case, the 'repr' of the object; which
in this case is a 'strange instance string'.

use:

<!--#var "image.data"-->

To get the actual binary contents of the Image.

-Michel



> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> P.
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