[BNM] rss feeds

[Joe Aliferis]

that some sexy clever sh*t

will it work ?

Joe

> A solution would be to create another script that returns an image for a
> given Id from the database, e.g.
> /image.php?image_id=3432
>
> Then in the RSS feed, you just need to insert the URLs for this new script
> with the image ids in place.
>
> Al
>
> 2009/7/22 Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com>
>
>   
>> As far as I am aware this is not possible. It *may* work on browsers that
>> support the data URI scheme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme)
>> but it would be far from a cross browser solution!
>> Al
>>
>>
>> 2009/7/22 Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk>
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>>     
>>> Not sure what you mean ?
>>>
>>> the images are stored in the DB as blob data
>>>
>>> I am trying to write a php script to output a table, that includes this
>>> blob field, as an RSS feed
>>>
>>> I can get everything to work but cannot work out how to include the
>>> image in the RSS feed
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Joe,
>>>>
>>>> Hello. Can I ask why not just store a link to a binary image file?
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Andrew Gill (andrew at andrewgill.com)
>>>> www.ChatBadge.com
>>>>
>>>> 2009/7/22 Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>> does anyone know how to include binary image data from mysql database
>>>>> into an RSS feed ?
>>>>>
>>>>> idea is to show a thumbnail along with the text from the DB record
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> Joe
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