Re: Images : Store in dB or disk?

On Thursday 16 January 2003 13:23, Bobby Patel wrote: > I AGREE that storing images strored on disk is a valid approach PROVIDED > that you only need 1 image per page, but if you need to grab a bunch at a > time, I do beleieve that storing the actual file on the dB is faster. > > I would like to hear from the list, of people that have worked with images > and PHP. I just started with images, so I just want to take the right path. I would say develop your application so that it both stores the images in the DB _and_ copies it to the filesystem -- it should only require a few more lines of code. Then have a flag at runtime which decides whether to retrieve images from DB or from filesystem. Once you have enough data you can easily determine which method is faster and subsequently comment/remove the insertion code for the slower method. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* Be sure to evaluate the bird-hand/bush ratio. */