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So I've got some images stored in a MySQL database as BLOB's (I know it's better to just store the directory and do it that way, but this is what I need to do for now) and I need to display them on a webpage. Now, I know how to make a script and give it an image header and pull the img src from there, but I have a lot of images from different places for different uses, so I'd have to make a ton of these scripts and I'd rather not clutter up my files like that. Anyway, does anyone know of a function or something I can use to display the image that will run on the same page?

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This is what I've done in php to call an image stored a blob in mysql 

img width=120 height=120 src="data:image/png;base64,'.base64_encode($row['Image']).'
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Use a data: URI to hold the image.

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Pardon my noobishness, but I've never heard of this technique. I'm reading up on it now, but could someone explain how I would go about using it? Thanks
Wherever you would have http://... in a img src, you instead put data: followed by the mimetype, the encoding, and the encoded image data.
Ah, very interesting. Thanks, I'm gonna try this.

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