Going crazy about binary post

Hey all,

I'm tearing my hair out over this one.. I'm using EasyPHP, and trying to
write a script which receives binary POST data from a client program of
mine. I've put together a simplified example which demonstrates the
problem. The data looks like this:

(String showing the length of the following binary)(Character
#10)(Binary data)

My PHP script looks like this:

<?
include('databasedef.php');
set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
$chandle = mysql_pconnect($servername, $username, $password) or
die("FAIL");
mysql_select_db($database, $chandle) or die ("FAIL");

$handle=fopen("php://input","rb") or die("FAIL");

$c=fgets($handle,20);

$picture=mysql_real_escape_string(fread($handle,$c ));

$query="INSERT INTO ".$table." (Picture) VALUES ('".$picture."')";
mysql_db_query($database, $query) or die("Failed Query");

fclose($handle);
mysql_close($chandle);
?>

Although I get the right number of bytes in my MySQL database, they're
corrupted! What setting am I missing here? The files being stored are
less than 40k in a MEDIUMBLOB field.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

Puzzling. It might have something to do with the
encoding. What kind of files are you inserting?

More likely, though, it is a bug specific to
EasyPHP, perhaps due to compilation issues.
Can you try running your code on a Linux box?

Felix

Felix wrote:
> Puzzling. It might have something to do with the
> encoding. What kind of files are you inserting?

GIF images. It's got me beat as well.

> More likely, though, it is a bug specific to
> EasyPHP, perhaps due to compilation issues.
> Can you try running your code on a Linux box?

I don't have one available.. I'll try updating the individual components
of EasyPHP.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock