Displaying images stored as binary in MySQL

[Blaktyger]

How can this be done? Images are stored in a LONGBLOB field. When I
try to display them, it prints out the binary data as it is...

Thank you

[Tom B.]

"Blaktyger" <bl*******@hotm ail.com> wrote in message
news:c9******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

How can this be done? Images are stored in a LONGBLOB field. When I
try to display them, it prints out the binary data as it is...

Thank you

You could get PIL at http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

and try the Image.fromstrin g() function.

Tom

[Benjamin Niemann]

Blaktyger wrote:

How can this be done? Images are stored in a LONGBLOB field. When I
try to display them, it prints out the binary data as it is...

Display where? On local screen, in a webbrowser?
Assuming the first one, see post by Tom.
Assuming the second one (you're writing a cgi,mod_python. .. program),
did you set the content-type in the http header correctly?

[Blaktyger]

Benjamin Niemann <b.*******@bett ernet.de> wrote in message news:<cf******* ***@online.de>. ..

Blaktyger wrote:

How can this be done? Images are stored in a LONGBLOB field. When I
try to display them, it prints out the binary data as it is...

Display where? On local screen, in a webbrowser?
Assuming the first one, see post by Tom.
Assuming the second one (you're writing a cgi,mod_python. .. program),
did you set the content-type in the http header correctly?

In a webbrowser...
this is my code...

#!/usr/bin/python2.3

print 'Content-Type:image/jpeg\n\n'
import blakHtml, sys
sys.stderr = sys.stdout
import MySQLdb
import urllib
import cgi
import time
prevPg=blakHtml .HTMLDocument()
newConnection=M ySQLdb.connect( host='localhost ', user='blaktyger ', \
passwd='linux4e ver', db='photoFamill e')
curseur=newConn ection.cursor()

sqlCmdFr="""SEL ECT * FROM photo"""
curseur.execute (sqlCmdFr)
resultats = curseur.fetchal l()
p=0
for val in resultats:
p=p+1
#print '<img src=" ' + val[5]+ ' " ' +' >' THIS DOES NOT WORK
print val[5]
newConnection.c lose()
I know there is no HTML code but this is just a test...

[Benjamin Niemann]

>>>How can this be done? Images are stored in a LONGBLOB field. When I

try to display them, it prints out the binary data as it is...
Display where? On local screen, in a webbrowser?
Assuming the first one, see post by Tom.
Assuming the second one (you're writing a cgi,mod_python. .. program),
did you set the content-type in the http header correctly?

In a webbrowser...
this is my code...

#!/usr/bin/python2.3

print 'Content-Type:image/jpeg\n\n'

You must use '\r\n' to terminate header lines. I'm not really sure, but
maybe there should also be a spacing between ':' and 'image/jpeg'...
If you are using e.g. FireFox as a browser, you can user 'View Page
Info' to see, if the browser correctly understands, what you are trying
to tell it ('Type' should say 'image/jpeg').
import blakHtml, sys
sys.stderr = sys.stdout
import MySQLdb
import urllib
import cgi
import time
prevPg=blakHtml .HTMLDocument()
newConnection=M ySQLdb.connect( host='localhost ', user='blaktyger ', \
passwd='linux4e ver', db='photoFamill e')
curseur=newConn ection.cursor()

sqlCmdFr="""SEL ECT * FROM photo"""
curseur.execute (sqlCmdFr)
resultats = curseur.fetchal l()
p=0
for val in resultats:
p=p+1
#print '<img src=" ' + val[5]+ ' " ' +' >' THIS DOES NOT WORK
print val[5]
newConnection.c lose()
I know there is no HTML code but this is just a test...

val[5] contains the raw image data (not a path), correct? Does 'photo'
contains more than one image? Concatenating several images into one
bytestream, is definitly not what you want.

[Blaktyger]

Benjamin Niemann <b.*******@bett ernet.de> wrote in message news:<cf******* ***@online.de>. ..

How can this be done? Images are stored in a LONGBLOB field. When I
try to display them, it prints out the binary data as it is...

Display where? On local screen, in a webbrowser?
Assuming the first one, see post by Tom.
Assuming the second one (you're writing a cgi,mod_python. .. program),
did you set the content-type in the http header correctly?

In a webbrowser...
this is my code...

#!/usr/bin/python2.3

print 'Content-Type:image/jpeg\n\n'

You must use '\r\n' to terminate header lines. I'm not really sure, but
maybe there should also be a spacing between ':' and 'image/jpeg'...
If you are using e.g. FireFox as a browser, you can user 'View Page
Info' to see, if the browser correctly understands, what you are trying
to tell it ('Type' should say 'image/jpeg').

import blakHtml, sys
sys.stderr = sys.stdout
import MySQLdb
import urllib
import cgi
import time
prevPg=blakHtml .HTMLDocument()
newConnection=M ySQLdb.connect( host='localhost ', user='blaktyger ', \
passwd='****', db='photoFamill e')
curseur=newConn ection.cursor()

sqlCmdFr="""SEL ECT * FROM photo"""
curseur.execute (sqlCmdFr)
resultats = curseur.fetchal l()
p=0
for val in resultats:
p=p+1
#print '<img src=" ' + val[5]+ ' " ' +' >' THIS DOES NOT WORK
print val[5]
newConnection.c lose()
I know there is no HTML code but this is just a test...

val[5] contains the raw image data (not a path), correct? Does 'photo'
contains more than one image? Concatenating several images into one
bytestream, is definitly not what you want.

val[5] contains only one image but I saw that when printing out val[5]
is that the binary data is in a array. So this i what I did...

import array
[same code as before except for this... ]

print 'Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n'
[...]
for val in resultats:
p=p+1
img=''
t=''
# t is an array object. the tostring() argument extracts the
binary data
t=val[5].tostring()
print t
and it works!
Thanks for your help Ben!