Upload an image in table item

Question

Hi everyone
I'm just a noob with ADDT, i found it just a couple of days ago, and started to practicing a lot.
Here's my question:
Ho can i do this? imagine this add-form in the backend,
title:
picture 1:
text:
date:
Well, about this form, i can make it work almost everything, except the picture thing. How can i add this to my DB, and whats the steps to follow to get the form properly do it with ADDT?
The DB table has this fields:
IdItem -> INT -> primary key -> auto increment
title -> varchar(100)
picture -> should be LONGBLOB? any other settings?
text -> text
date -> date
Then, in the rontend, i have all properly setup, but, once again, i don't know how to manage the picture thing, i'd like that picture has a max width and height.
Finally, i see several times that some developers decide all the types that the user can upload, like "*.png, *.gif, *.jpg, *.jpeg..." i think this sentences take place in the backend form, right?
Well, that's all my question, i hope someone can help me with that, or at least give me some manual/tutorial to learn about images/mysql/file uploads
Thanks!
Javier

Answer 1

javissss wrote:
picture -> should be LONGBLOB? any other settings?
as neither ADDT nor Dreamweaver´s native server behaviours support BLOB type columns, you need to specify the directory below your site where ADDT is supposed to upload the file in question. The column "picture" will have to turned into a "varchar" type, because it will hold the name of the uploaded file.
Then, in the rontend, i have all properly setup, but, once again, i don't know how to manage the picture thing, i'd like that picture has a max width and height.
Finally, i see several times that some developers decide all the types that the user can upload, like "*.png, *.gif, *.jpg, *.jpeg..." i think this sentences take place in the backend form, right?
ADDT´s Image Upload behaviour lets you specify such settings - many of them are accessible from within the 2nd tab
Cheers,
Günter