Well… It is already a well discussed topic. But when I was first trying to find out how to do this, I really got stuck. Actully it took me a lot of time to find out the key code segment for the purpose.

So, here is what I’ve learned:

The table:

Suppose the structure of the MySQL table (say ‘file_table‘) is like this:

It has three fileds:

• id : the primary key, integer type with auto increment feature.
• content: the content of file, blob type.
• type: varchar type, the type of the file (e.g. doc, pdf etc.).


Upload:

I think you can create a HTML form with a input with file type. Its pretty simple. Just use this code to make a input field be able to upload file:

<input id="file_upload" name="file_upload" type="file" />

Now the backend coding. I’m using PHP for this. Continue reading →