title: I can't upload pdf to my mysql database
body: <p>I am a PHP beginner and I am trying to upload PDF to my MySQL database. I tried adding some code to make it pdf compatible but it didn't work so i removed it and I have the PHP script that can upload .txt, word docs, images, etc but not PDF. What do you you suggest I should add to it so it works for PDF. Here's my script.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"&gt;
  &lt;table width="350" border="0" cellpadding="1"
  cellspacing="1" class="box"&gt;
  &lt;tr&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;Select a file to upload&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;tr&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;
  &lt;input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE"
  value="16000000"&gt;
  &lt;input name="userfile" type="file" id="userfile"&gt; 
  &lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;tr&gt;
  &lt;td width="80"&gt;&lt;input name="upload"
  type="submit" class="box" id="upload" value=" Upload "&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  &lt;?php
  if(isset($_POST['upload']) &amp;&amp; $_FILES['userfile']['size'] &gt; 0)
  {
  $fileName = $_FILES['userfile']['name'];
  $tmpName  = $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];
  $fileSize = $_FILES['userfile']['size'];
  $fileType = $_FILES['userfile']['type'];
  $fileType=(get_magic_quotes_gpc()==0 ? mysql_real_escape_string(
  $_FILES['userfile']['type']) : mysql_real_escape_string(
  stripslashes ($_FILES['userfile'])));
  $fp      = fopen($tmpName, 'r');
  $content = fread($fp, filesize($tmpName));
  $content = addslashes($content);
  fclose($fp);
  if(!get_magic_quotes_gpc())
  {
      $fileName = addslashes($fileName);
  }
  $con = mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', '') or die(mysql_error());
  $db = mysql_select_db('test', $con);
  if($db){
  $query = "INSERT INTO upload (name, size, type, content ) ".
  "VALUES ('$fileName', '$fileSize', '$fileType', '$content')";
  mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed'); 
  mysql_close();
  echo "&lt;br&gt;File $fileName uploaded&lt;br&gt;";
  }else { echo "file upload failed"; }
  } 
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>