Originally Posted by grahame

I've got a complete worked example that uploads an image, stores it in a MySQL database, retreives it and displays it back to the browser ... here on my own website. It's one of our most popular pages

I do need to alert you that if you're going to glue all these technologies / steps together in a single application, you need to know enough about each step along the way in order to be able to split it into parts and debug it section by section along the way if it doesn't work right through - so this is NOT what I would call a "hello world" type project. But the results are great when it's running.