On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:51:29AM +0200, Werner Stuerenburg wrote:
>
> Im my understanding, you are storing images. AFAIK, images should
> not be stored in the db but in the filesystem.
There's nothing wrong with doing it, as long as you understand what
you're doing. After all, images are (from MySQL's point of view) no
different than lots of text, numbers, or any other data.
> You store only the filename and other data (time etc.) in the
> db. There are some remarks on this at php.net and other places, as
> this question is posed often.
It's not always possible or easy to get files onto the database
server's filesystem. In fact, it's often a good idea to tightly
restrict access to a database server's filesystem.
Jeremy
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