Cuz, I did it unintentionally. After reading wikipedia I understand the "binary large object" is for large media files, and I'm not saving a media file. So how does data get stored this way? What's wrong with this setup to display text as BLOB in phpmyadmin? the MySql field from phpmyadmin,
Field = 'first_name'
Type = text
Collation = latin1_bin
Null = No
Default = None The php code,$insertName = "INSERT INTO name(first_name,last_name)VALUES('$firstName','$lastName')";
$dbSuccess_1 = mysql_query($insertName,$connectID) or die ("ERROR_1 - Unable to save to MySQL".error_get_last().mysql_error($connectID));
Field = 'first_name'
Type = text
Collation = latin1_bin
Null = No
Default = None The php code,$insertName = "INSERT INTO name(first_name,last_name)VALUES('$firstName','$lastName')";
$dbSuccess_1 = mysql_query($insertName,$connectID) or die ("ERROR_1 - Unable to save to MySQL".error_get_last().mysql_error($connectID));