Re: Storing images

Ahhhh.. Very nice. I did not think of that. But lets say its a whole bunch of images and multiple people may be accessing them. Is it safe to have them accessing a directory outside the public_html directory? Thanks, Karl On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:

On 3 February 2010 16:07, Karl DeSaulniers <karl@designdrumm.com> wrote:

Thank you all for your numerous responses. I hear you loud and clear. I was wanting to see if it would be less of a burden on the server and secure my images better to put the images inside a database, but as you all have almost uniformly stated, this would not be the best situation. I currently have all my images referenced by url in my database and stored in a folder/s and I think I will keep it that way... Thanks for your 2 cents, :) Karl -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

If you put the images OUTSIDE of the webroot/docroot/public_html folder (whatever you have), then a user cannot directly navigate to the file. e.g. /home/sites/your_site/public_html/images/image1.jpg http://www.yoursite.com/images/image1.jpg would probably work. But ... /home/sites/your_site/public_html/getImage.php /home/sites/your_site/hidden_images/image1.jpg Now, there is no way I can load image1.jpg from my browser. I have to use getImage.php, which I assume would require me to login or authenticate myself in some way. ------- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling

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