Re: save image in database vs folder

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > > 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"? :) http://www.gfy.com/ ;-P -- </Dan> Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek <? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ?>