not the picture url/hyperlink, but the picture itself?

Eskimoz,

All you need to do is store the url of the photo in the database and then display it in your html_record subroutine as follows:
<img src="$rec{'photo'}">
Assuming your field that contains the imae url is named 'photo' and is the full url http://www.yourserver.com/yourimage.gif

From your other post on sql it seems that you might want to look at links to do what you are talking about.

Mike