Re: OID output problems

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:13:14PM -0800, surfer girl wrote:
> --- "Robert B. Easter" <reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> >Try recompiling php 4.0RC1 or whatever is current with the latest Apache
> >source (1.3.12). I'm thinking maybe you are not running php as compiled into
> >the server.
>
> Thanks - I had PHP compiled into the server - though I may try the recompile as a last resort (before the major last resort of just keeping images as files and putting the filename and location into the db).
>
> Someone asked if my INPUT was correct. Here's what I've got:
>
> pg_Exec($conn, "BEGIN");
> $oid = pg_locreate($conn);
> $handle = pg_loopen($conn, $oid, "w");
> pg_lowrite($handle, $file);

Hmm, based on my reading of the php4 docs, this will right the contents of the variable
'file' to the lo, expecting it to be a null terminated string. I'm not sure how you're
supposed to get binary data in there. Is 'file' by any chance, the name of your file,
not the contents?

Ross
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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005