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iOS Sending UIImage to MySQL
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I'm not an expert with database stuff but wouldn't you be better off storing the image on the file system and only storing the path to that file in the database?
Store the pixel data as a BLOB object and then reload the pixel data. What part are you stuck on ?
You probably are better off storing it in the file system and keeping a reference to it in the database, but if you still want to store it in the database, easiest would be to convert to jpeg or png via UIImageJPEGRepresentation()/UIImagePNGRepresentation() and +[UIImage imageWithData:]
Ya I can convert it to the BLOB type however, I am sending it image to the server along with some text and when I go to send to them together it sends two different sets of data when I only want it to send one set of data.
The above code is how I am sending my text data, somehow I want to incorporate the image into my postData (which is an NSString)
Code:
NSMutableURLRequest *req = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringCacheData timeoutInterval:20];
[req setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[req setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
Code:
[req setValue:length forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
[req setHTTPBody:[postData dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]];The above code is how I am sending my text data, somehow I want to incorporate the image into my postData (which is an NSString)
Well, postData may be an NSString but calling that instance method (dataUsingEncoding:) returns an NSData.