Support for this function is limited. See the Feature Comparison Matrix
mixed blobEncode(
string $blob
)
The function blobEncode() encodes a value using the database specific encoding method and returns the encoded value or false if the function fails. Once inserted, the value cab be inserted into a blob field in the database
$fld = file_get_contents('/temp/stored.jpg'); $blob = $db->blobEncode($fld);