Going crazy about binary post

[Nicholas Sherlock]

Hey all,

I'm tearing my hair out over this one.. I'm using EasyPHP, and trying to
write a script which receives binary POST data from a client program of
mine. I've put together a simplified example which demonstrates the
problem. The data looks like this:

(String showing the length of the following binary)(Charact er
#10)(Binary data)

My PHP script looks like this:

<?
include('databa sedef.php');
set_magic_quote s_runtime(0);
$chandle = mysql_pconnect( $servername, $username, $password) or
die("FAIL");
mysql_select_db ($database, $chandle) or die ("FAIL");

$handle=fopen(" php://input","rb") or die("FAIL");

$c=fgets($handl e,20);

$picture=mysql_ real_escape_str ing(fread($hand le,$c));

$query="INSERT INTO ".$table." (Picture) VALUES ('".$picture."' )";
mysql_db_query( $database, $query) or die("Failed Query");

fclose($handle) ;
mysql_close($ch andle);
?>

Although I get the right number of bytes in my MySQL database, they're
corrupted! What setting am I missing here? The files being stored are
less than 40k in a MEDIUMBLOB field.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

[Felix]

Puzzling. It might have something to do with the
encoding. What kind of files are you inserting?

More likely, though, it is a bug specific to
EasyPHP, perhaps due to compilation issues.
Can you try running your code on a Linux box?

Felix

[Nicholas Sherlock]

Felix wrote:

Puzzling. It might have something to do with the
encoding. What kind of files are you inserting?
GIF images. It's got me beat as well.
More likely, though, it is a bug specific to
EasyPHP, perhaps due to compilation issues.
Can you try running your code on a Linux box?

I don't have one available.. I'll try updating the individual components
of EasyPHP.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock