Re: Storing gifs, jpegs etc in MySQL and showing them via php
| From: | Duncan Hill | Date: | Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:44:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Storing gifs, jpegs etc in MySQL and showing them via php | ||
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On 2000-10-16, Ib Christian Bank did say,
> Hi,
>
> i'm pretty new to php, and now i wonder how can i store a gif or a jpeg in a
> database (i have stored some gifs in a table with MEDIUMBLOB) and later show
> them in a php-page via some db-stuff and the <IMG ...>-tag or something
> related.
Many people will tell you that this is a bad idea. You have a much
better DB for storing files at your fingertips - the filesystem. USe
the DB to contains path pointers to the image on disk, and let the
file system worry about handling the file.
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