Loading images stored as BLOBs in MySQL

Hello,
For various reasons, I would prefer to store binary data like images and videos as BLOBs within a MySQL database and have Flash retrieve that content directly from the database as opposed to getting it from a URL on a fileserver. So, I have written a PHP script that Flash calls which does a database query and returns the bitmap data from the BLOB. I have verified that the image data is being sent from the database through the PHP, but Flash either doesn't display the image or gives me an error saying that it is an unknown type.
Here is the AS3:
var imageLdr:Loader = new Loader();
//imageLdr.dataFormat = "binary";
imageLdr.load(new URLRequest("http://www.XXXXXXXXXX.com/cgi/getToken.php"));
imageLdr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadImage, false, 0, true);
function loadImage(evt:Event):void {
    trace("Now in loadImage...");
    tokenHolder.addChild(imageLdr);
    addChild(tokenHolder);
    trace("loadImage complete...");
Here is the getToken.php file code:
<?php
$hostname = "dbhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "pword";
mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password) or die ("<html><script language='JavaScript'>alert('Unable to connect to database'),history.go(-1)</script></html>");
mysql_select_db($username);
$query = "SELECT content FROM media WHERE id=2";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$data = mysql_result($result, 0);
$im = imagecreatefromstring($data);
if ($im !== false) {
    header('Content-Type: image/png');
    imagepng($im);
    imagedestroy($im);
else {
    echo 'An error occurred.';
?>
Is there a way to get Loader() to accept bitmap image data that is retrieved from a BLOB in a database? Should I try to get PHP to mimic the response from an HTTP server or is there another way to load bitmap data stored as a BLOB into a display object?
Thanks!

Hey
Thanks for sharing your problem and how you get data as image in php. It gave me clue about my problem about getting blob info from database to as3 and displat it as image. So what i did is:
In this fuction;
function loadImage(evt:Event):void {
    trace("Now in loadImage...");
     tokenHolder.addChild(imageLdr);
    addChild(tokenHolder);
     trace("loadImage complete...");
I changed it to:
public function loadImage(evt:Event):void {
                trace("Now in loadImage...");
                img= evt.currentTarget.content as Bitmap;
                trace("loadImage complete...");
img is a Bitmap variable and I used Image component and stated its source as imgg ( source={img} )
I hope you can solve your problem
Have a good day...

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