Storing Images in a Database

Question

Hi Oracle Maestros,
I need your help on how to store images in the database.
I have requirement like that whenever i press a upload button then it should call a plsql procedure and store the image in the database.
Please help me how to pass a image path and image in plsql procdure.
Please help and provide me your guidelines.
I am using Oracle 10g db version.
Thank you,
Sunitha.

Answer 1

Hi Sunitha,
check if this helps: the link below is very helpful
--http://dbaforums.org/oracle/index.php?showtopic=3547
CREATE TABLE XX_IMAGES
IMAGE_NAME VARCHAR2(30) primary key,
MIME_TYPE VARCHAR2(30),
CONTENT BLOB
create directory TEST_IMG as '/data-ap/image';
select * from dba_directories;
select * from XX_IMAGES;
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE XX_IMAGES_PKG AS
PROCEDURE LOAD(filename VARCHAR2);
PROCEDURE get(name varchar2);
end;
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY XX_IMAGES_PKG AS
PROCEDURE load(filename VARCHAR2) AS
f_lob BFILE;
b_lob BLOB;
image_name VARCHAR2(30);
mime_type VARCHAR2(30);
dot_pos NUMBER;
v_SOURCE_DIR varchar2(30) := 'TEST_IMG'; --'/data-ap/image';
BEGIN
dot_pos := INSTR(filename,'.');
image_name := filename; --SUBSTR(filename,1,dot_pos-1);
mime_type := 'image/'||SUBSTR( filename,dot_pos+1,length(filename) );
INSERT INTO XX_IMAGES values(image_name,mime_type,empty_blob() )
RETURN content INTO b_lob;
f_lob := BFILENAME(v_SOURCE_DIR,filename);
dbms_lob.fileopen(f_lob,dbms_lob.file_readonly);
dbms_lob.loadfromfile(b_lob,f_lob,dbms_lob.getlength(f_lob) );
dbms_lob.fileclose(f_lob);
COMMIT;
END;
/*=====*/
PROCEDURE get(name varchar2) AS
vblob BLOB;
mime_type VARCHAR2(30);
BEGIN
select content,mime_type
into vblob,mime_type
from XX_IMAGES
where image_name=name;
owa_util.mime_header(mime_type, false);
owa_util.http_header_close;
wpg_docload.download_file(vblob);
exception when others then
htp.p(sqlcode || sqlerrm);
END;
/*=====*/
END;copy image (test_img.jpg) to the location on the server
run from unix server:
chmod 777 test_img.jpgrun the procedure
BEGIN
XX_IMAGES_PKG.LOAD('test_img.jpg');
END;I created report .rdf to display image from the table column.
Regards
Imran