Re: building web album - design questions

> Hi, > > I'm planning to build a web album for my digital photographs, and have > some questions regarding the design: > > 1) Is it better to store the images within the database, or just store > pointers to the images which is put outside, in the filesystem? > IMHO, store a link of "pointer" to the images > 2) At log in, I want to show to which albums new pictures have been added > since last visit. For performance reasons, should information about last > added pictures be added to the database, or is it ok to make a MySQL-query > each time, comparing the add-date for every picture in every album with the > users last log in date? > How often will this get hit? If often you could also update a string in a test file the same time you do your database/album updates. But a huge traffic is not a cause for concern you should be able to safely execute a query every time to find out the lastest pictures/albums updated. > 3) If I've understood things right, there is functions within PHP that > can handle picture resizing? Is that correct? > Yes, some good tutorials out there. I don't know about internal PHP functions, I often just call ImageMagik from inside my php script to re-size my images, but I'm sure there are plenty of ways... HTH -brad > Best regards, > > Anders Thoresson > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >