How To Create a Table To Store Files in PHP?

If you using MySQL database and want to store files in database, you need to create BLOB columns, which can holds up to 65,535 characters. Here is a sample script that creates a table with a BLOB column to be used to store uploaded files:

<?php
  $con = mysql_connect("localhost", "", "");
  mysql_select_db("fyi");
  $sql = "CREATE TABLE fyi_files ("
      . " id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT" 
      . ", name VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL"
      . ", type VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL"
      . ", size INTEGER NOT NULL"
      . ", content BLOB"
      . ", PRIMARY KEY (id)"
      . ")";
  mysql_query($sql, $con); 
  mysql_close($con); 
?>

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