Re: Pictures+MySQL+PHP

Ck Raju wrote: > > that I changed my mind. Gurhan Ozen>Storing images in the database is not a > good idea , just store the path of Gurhan Ozen>the images in the database > and keep your images in your hard disk... Gurhan Ozen> > > Since everything is on hard-disk, I personally feel, the image can be stored > anywhere. BLOB should be easier when doing a mysqldump, or when replication > is needed. > > Anywhere else go in for storing images separately. > Raju I prefer storing images out of the dbserver to save on server load. You can serve those images with a http server like thttpd, boa etc which will serve images quicker and with a lighter load. If you need replication just use rsync to move your images around. But if server load isn't an issue a database is as good as any place.