I create a component in my joomla website. the component shows some photos (not big, only 8KB). the photos are stored in mysql blob. i can upload the photos to the joomla database but i cannot display it on the website. whatever i do it only show some encoding character or blank. I tried to create a separate page but but the result is same. Here is what i have done :
mycomp is my joomla component.

admin.mycomp.php

```
<?php
function showDetail($option)
{
    $db = &JFactory::getDBO();
    $id = mysql_real_escape_string(JRequest::getVar('id'));
    $query = "select id,myphoto from jos_myphotos where id = ".$id;
    $db->setQuery($query);
    $rows = $db->loadObjectList();
    HTML_myphoto::showPhoto($rows,$option);
}     
?>

```

admin.mycomp.html.php

```
<?php
class HTML_myphoto
{
   ...
   function showPhoto($row,$option)
   {
      ...
      header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
      echo $row->myphoto;  //this will show some encoding character
      echo base64_decode($row->myphoto);  //this will show blank page
      //change echo with print get the same result.
      ...
   }
   ...
}

```

I tried to create a separate page like this :
admin.mycomp.html.php

```
<?php
class HTML_myphoto
{
...
function showPhoto($row,$option)
{
    ...
?>
    <img src="show_image.php?myphoto=<?php echo $row->myphoto;?>" width=200 height=300>
<?php   
    ...
}
...
}

```

show\_image.php

```
<?php
     $myphoto = (isset($_GET['myphoto'])) $_GET['myphoto'] : false;
     if($myphoto)
     {
         header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
         echo $myphoto;  //this will show some encoding character
         echo base64_decode($myphoto);  //this will show blank page
         //change echo with print get the same result.
     }
?>

```

the result is same.