On Thursday 22 Jul 2010 06:48:08 Mimi Cafe wrote:
> Anyone worked on a project where they have stored pictures in MySQL db from
> Perl program?  I need to store pictures in MYSQL and my initial thought was
> a normal insert statement. Now I did a bit of search and people are making
> it completed out there. I have not tried it, but I was thinking of grabbing
> my picture and inserting into the table using a normal SQL insert like:
> 
>  $dbh->do(qq{insert into mytable (id, pic) values(1,$pic_file_name)});
> 

This suffers from a possible SQL injection:

* http://bobby-tables.com/

* http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/35301.html

Anyway, do you want to store the entire picture (as data) or just its 
filename?

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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