I have to disagree with most, I would store the entire file in the database, metadata and all. Better security, if you have a backend database, it's much harder to get the data than pdf's sitting in a directory on the webserver. Plus if you ever want to scale to a multi-webserver environment, the db storage works great.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Ed wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:26, Alexander Lind wrote: > > I would put the pdf as a regular file on the hd, and store the path to > > it in the db. > > Meta data could be things like the size of the pdf, author, owner, > > number of pages etc. > > > > Storing binary data from pdf:s or images or any other common binary > > format is generally not a good idea. > > > > Alec > > Thank you all for your help. I get the gist of things... don't store the > binnary, store the path to it and details of it. > > Thank you all for your quick response. > -Ed > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
