Re: Re: Upload File

Hi Rory Am 2006-05-10 23:05:07, schrieb Rory Browne: > you can say newbie as well. As a newbie I thought myself that storing images > in a DB would be a nice clean solution. Voices of experience said otherwise. > Over the years as I grew more experienced I began to understand myself, why > putting images into a MySQL Db is a Bad Thing[tm]. Like me... in 2000/2001 where I had only a very small database of 1 GByte I had done this too... No I have 370 GByte of text data and 1,5 TByte binaries laying around... It would be a nightmare to store thise binaries in the database > Sorry if this seems rough / harsh, but if it causes a person to think twice > before using MySQL as a file storage solution, then it's justified. FullACK > PHP has the facilities built-in to perform this search/sort/filter - while > their use isn't always the cleanest solution, anything is better than > putting files in a db. And if the PICs are in JPEG format, maybe they have EXIF infos which can be extracted and stored in the database... Greetings Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)