Re: save image in database vs folder
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:15:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: save image in database vs folder | ||
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On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:18 +0000, Richard Heyes wrote:
> > some friend of mine ague about this matter, this morning. they say, saving
> > image in
> > database is more professional. I am not really agree with that,since i am
> > just a novice programmer.
>
> Well, bearing in mind I only have experience of MySQL, the general
> consensus is to save it to a file on you hard drive and store the file
> name in the database. If for whatever reason you can't or don't want to
> do that, then at least store it in a separate table that only gets
> touched when the image is requested.
Can you point me to a link where I can read about this so-called
"general consensus"? :)
Cheers,
Rob.
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