Hi, I have this personal project.. I'd like to develop a photo gallery and have the content (blurbs, pics, whatever) derived from a database. This is all simple and a no brainer.. now here is my question.. Does any one have a better way to manage the image files? Currently what I do is I have a field in a table that stored the relative path to the image on the web server. Using DBI I can print that out what I need on the html and the pic shows up on the web page. All is good. Problem.. say you get to the point of having 10K+ images? now managing the pics dir and making sure the paths actually reference a file is a full time job on it's own. Ok, another way is to store the image file as a varbinary and then DBI your way though things.. I'm not too keen on this latter method.. I feel RTFM comming on but that's ok... Can anyone give me some pointers, advice, flames, insults? Even better has someone tried this varbinary stuff with perl? I don't want to use C, C++ and stuff.. If perl won't do it then now, I'll wait for the next version :c) FYI, the tech details are: Linux, apache 1.3.12 perl 5.6 PHP 4.00 dbi 1.14 (i think.. haven't checked in a while) MSSQL7 on NT4 is the database Hope this is not OT, and thanks for your time! Regards, Gonzalo _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-web
