&lt;?php<br />
<br />
try {<br />
	//include('x.php');//x.php has the connection string below.<br />
	$handler = new PDO('mysql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=thedatabase;', 'theusername', 'thepassword'); //Setting the handler. See next line if this line fails.<br />
	$handler-&gt;setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); //Setting the attributes for the handler that we want to see if exception error.<br />
}<br />
//global $handler<br />
catch(PDOException $e) { //Return the PDO exception and naming it $e.<br />
//	echo 'Caught';<br />
//	die('Sorry database problem.'); //Production message.<br />
	echo $e-&gt;getMessage(); //Show specific error message. Development.<br />
}<br />
<br />
//	$id = htmlentities($argv[1]);<br />
	$id = htmlentities($_GET['id']);<br />
//	$id = "55";<br />
	$query = $handler-&gt;prepare("select * from blobimages where id = :id;");<br />
	$query-&gt;bindParam(':id',$id);<br />
	$query-&gt;execute();<br />
<br />
	while($r=$query-&gt;fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ)){<br />
		$imageData = $r-&gt;image;<br />
		$imageType = $r-&gt;filetype;<br />
		$imageName = $r-&gt;name;<br />
		//Header that gets sent to the browser.<br />
		header("content-type: $imageType");<br />
		//Display the image:<br />
		echo $imageData;<br />
	}<br /><br />

?&gt;<br /><br />
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'theusername'@'localhost' (using password: YES)