Re: [PHP-DB] Storing images

I would say that only if this is going to be a very small project should you
think about storing the images in the db.  I had a contract job for a real
estate company that had stored all their images in the database.  They had
~25K rows of data where each image was ~5K and their website was going down
weekly.

I had to rewrite the entire image upload/retrieval system for their site to
change it to folder based storage.

Just my thoughts...

Thanks

patrick



On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Phpster <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sure is.  Save the data in a blob field. Lots of examples on the net on how
> to get it there and back out again.
>
> Note that you will also find arguments about whether or not to do it in the
> first place. I prefer not to, as it causes significant performance issues
> when the image table gets to a certain size.
>
> Bastien
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Karl DeSaulniers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Hello List,
>> Forgive me if this is a noob question, but is it possible to fill a
>> database table with actual image data, IE a jpeg? And then call that data to
>> display the image?
>> Or is it better to just reference it stored on the server somewhere and
>> just put the url in the database?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Karl DeSaulniers
>> Design Drumm
>> http://designdrumm.com
>>
>>
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