PHP Storing compressed data in mssql image field

[Marcel]

Hello all,

I am trying to store a large string representing a RTF document through PHP
in a MS SQL Server database. To gain diskspace i want to compress that
string.

My code looks like this:

str_replace("'","''",addslashes(gzcompress($RTF1)) )

The insert succeeds but the problem occurs when i try to retrieve the data
form the database and when i try to transform it to the original string, i
then use:

$RTFdecompressed = gzuncompress(stripslashes(str_replace("''","'",$RT F)));

But this does not work ok....

Can someone have any suggestions please?

Marcel