thank you chris for your solution :)
>From: Chris <[email protected]>
>To: ben wilko <[email protected]>
>CC: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [PHP] Tutorial/Example of Insert/Select PDF Postgres DB ?
>Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:51:46 +1000
>
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>ben wilko wrote:
>>I am looking to have a dynamic page which will allow users to select
>>categories in which a corresponding PDF file will be accessible to them.
>
>That doesn't make any difference.. It becomes two database tables:
>
>create table downloadfile (fileid serial primary key, filename text);
>create table downloadfile_categories (fileid int references downloadfile
>(fileid), categoryid int references categories (categoryid));
>
>then a file can be available for multiple categories and so on.
>
>
>If you really want to store binary data in the database, start here:
>
>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/datatype-binary.html
>
>and here:
>
>http://php.net/pg_escape_bytea
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