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A5_imageURL_from_blob Function
Syntax
c URL = a5_imageURL_from_blob(blob as b, imageTypeIn as c, imageTypeOut = "" )
Arguments
- imageTypeIn
The image type (jpg, bmp, png)
- imageTypeOut
The image type you want to return.
Description
Takes a blob (image data) and creates a URL for the image. A use case for this function would be if you had a table that contained a binary field with some image data in it. You would like to display this image in some html.
Example
<%a5 dim cn as sql::connection cn.open("::name::myconnection") dim sql as c sql = "select imageblob from products where productid = 1") cn.execute(sql) dim b as b b = cn.resultset.data("imageblob") dim url as c url = a5_imageURL_from_blob(b,"jpg","jpg") ?"<img src=" + quote(url) + " />" %>