ColdFusion Developer's Guide

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SELECT EMLPOYEEID, PHOTO FROM Employees
For information on converting a ColdFusion image to a BLOB, see “Inserting an image as a
BLOB in a database” on page 1093.
Creating an image from a Base64 string
Base64 is a way to describe binary data as a string of ASCII characters. Some databases store
images in Base64 format rather than as BLOB data. You can use the cfimage tag or the
ImageReadBase64 function to read Base64 data directly from a database. This eliminates the
intermediary steps of binary encoding and decoding.
The following examples show how to use the cfimage tag to create a ColdFusion image from
a Base64 string:
The following examples show how to use the ImageReadBase64 function to create a
ColdFusion image from a Base64 string:
For more information on Base64 strings, see “Converting an image to a Base64 string”
on page 1093.
1090 Creating and Manipulating ColdFusion Images