What are the steps involved in resizing an image stored as a BLOB in a MySQL database before saving it back to the database in PHP?

When resizing an image stored as a BLOB in a MySQL database in PHP, you need to fetch the image from the database, resize it using PHP's GD library or another image manipulation library, and then save the resized image back to the database.

// Connect to MySQL database
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Fetch image data from database
$sql = "SELECT image_blob FROM images WHERE id = 1";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
$image_blob = $row['image_blob'];

// Resize image using GD library
$original_image = imagecreatefromstring($image_blob);
$resized_image = imagescale($original_image, 100, 100);

// Save resized image back to database
$resized_blob = imagejpeg($resized_image);
$sql = "UPDATE images SET image_blob = ? WHERE id = 1";
$stmt = $conn->prepare($sql);
$stmt->bind_param("b", $resized_blob);
$stmt->execute();

// Close database connection
$conn->close();