Hello Peter,
I did search the forum. And I have spent probaby 40 hours trying to figure this out.

The code piece below is just a sample test code that will work anywhere. All you need to do is put an example.jpg on your directory and put in the username/password/testdatabase names.

I take a simple code piece (see below) and run it as a separate .php file independent of Sourcerer and Joomla and it displays the .jpg image from the MySQL blob field.

But, if I take the same exact code and put it inside Sourcerer inside of Joomla, I get garbage characters "����JFIF


``��C   " rather than the image. Exact same code.

I suspect there is something very simple I am missing. If you could take a quick glance, you would make me a very happy person.

Code:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$my_table = 'imageMySQL';
$my_image = 'example.jpg';
$my_server = 'localhost';
$my_user = 'histor16_jcagney';
$my_pwd = 'Cag11ney';
$my_name = 'histor16_Someone';
$my_link = mysql_connect($my_server, $my_user, $my_pwd)
or exit('Could not connect (' . mysql_errno() . '): ' . mysql_error());
$my = mysql_select_db($my_name, $my_link)
or exit('Could not select database (' . mysql_errno() . '): ' . mysql_error());
$image = file_get_contents("$my_image");
mysql_query("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS $my_table");
mysql_query("CREATE TABLE $my_table (image MEDIUMblob)");
mysql_query("INSERT INTO $my_table (image) VALUES ('".addslashes($image)."')");
$row = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT image FROM $my_table"));
mysql_query("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS $my_table");
header("Content-type: image/jpg");
print $row['image'];

try to put an exit; at the end.
This will stop Joomla from rendereing the rest of the page and overruling your header info. Joomla, by default renders a page as html, not as an image.

Thank you. I appreciate the reply. But the exit just threw me right out of Joomla. I am going to conclude that there is no direct way. I believe I will have to output the blob to a file and then display that through an echo image or pop out of PHP and do a direct image.

Oh, you are actuall trying to show an image in your joomla setup?!
You can't do it that way!

Yeah, you should have a separate image php file that you can then place in your content via a normal img tag, like: