cannot display image in PHP

Question

here's my code for image display -

$username = "xxxxxxxx";
$password = "xxxxxxxx";
$host = "000.001.000.000";
$database = "xxxxxxxx";

@mysql_connect($host, $username, $password) or die("Can not connect to database:         ".mysql_error());
@mysql_select_db($database) or die("Can not select the database: ".mysql_error());
$query = mysql_query("SELECT mimetype, Image FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 0,1");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($query);
$content = $row['Image'];
header('Content-type: image/jpg');
echo $content;

This is the error i'm getting

The image “http://www....” cannot be displayed because it contains errors.

what is wrong? The datatype of field in mysql is mediumblob

Answer 1

OK, first test, to see what is happening:

$username = "xxxxxxxx";
$password = "xxxxxxxx";
$host = "000.001.000.000";
$database = "xxxxxxxx";

if( !mysql_connect($host, $username, $password) )
  die( 'Unable to connect to Server: '.mysql_error() );
if( !mysql_select_db($database) )
  die( 'Can not select the Database: '.mysql_error() );

$query = mysql_query( "SELECT mimetype, Image FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 0,1" );

if( !$query )
  die( 'Query Failed: '.mysql_error() );
if( mysql_num_rows( $query )==0 )
  die( 'Query Returned No Records' );

$row = mysql_fetch_array($query);

echo '<pre>';
var_dump( $row );
echo '</pre>';

That should either show you the results from the database, or an error message. If you see an error message, correct whatever is causing it...

After the above just returns the Database row contents:

$username = "xxxxxxxx";
$password = "xxxxxxxx";
$host = "000.001.000.000";
$database = "xxxxxxxx";

if( !mysql_connect($host, $username, $password) )
  die( 'Unable to connect to Server: '.mysql_error() );
if( !mysql_select_db($database) )
  die( 'Can not select the Database: '.mysql_error() );

$query = mysql_query( "SELECT mimetype, Image FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 0,1" );

if( !$query )
  die( 'Query Failed: '.mysql_error() );
if( mysql_num_rows( $query )==0 )
  die( 'Query Returned No Records' );

$row = mysql_fetch_array($query);

header( 'Content-type: '.$row['mimetype'] );
echo $row['Image'];

(assuming that the mimetype field is something like "image/jpg")