Displaying BLOB image from Mysql database into dynamic div in html

1) Base64 option

Work with a single line, image/png for a png image and image/jpeg for a jpg one :

echo '<img src="data:image/png;base64,'.base64_encode($blob).'"/>';

example :

<div style="background-color:black; text-align:center; padding: 5px;">
  <img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADIAAAAwBAMAAACh2TSJAAAALVBMVEUAAADtNTX////3n5/+9fX719f7zMz5tLTzfHzuQED//f31jY3ybGzxXV3wVFRaxp+rAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAALVJREFUOMut0rENAjEQRNHdC4kY0QBaAQUQX0QAFSAKIKQEKiAA6VqgIkriApuV1x7pQPz0aWwHljLMpZ0CRDBGoXmeghGYKFJsUo90giAImCgV5OJF+oOgKE48MlGgs2VLBIunWesw0a1ZHqF82c7GmmIfUSpgotOly29DFPFJFDEhkgIT/V5mZuvj6XofKrHU6vyI4u37IYi36aN4h5tL7PJyif1dvCgEpapzISbCTEj5R78BZq5A5Ldh2XYAAAAASUVORK5CYII">
</div>

2) Dedicated page

With many big picture on the same page, the base64 may be not the good choice

Base64 is cool, but a bit heavy (usually around twice as the binary value encoded) and can’t be cached by the browser as it’s a part of the page, and not a page by itself (like a picture).

In this case, the best is to use a specific php page to display your picture :

On the main page use instead of base 64 : echo '<img src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34111390/image.php?id=".$id.'"/>'; with the id of the line you want the image.

On your image.php, for the basic you should use this :

// << include the $pdo here
$query = $pdo->prepare("SELECT `content` FROM `adsubm` WHERE `id` = :id" );
$query->execute(array(':id'=>$_GET['id']));
$data = $query->fetch();

if(empty($data)))
    header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
else {
    header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
    echo $data['content'];
}

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