Kevin Waterson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, zerof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It is not a good practice to store pictures in DataBases, use links, >> instead of. > > Rubbish, where are your benchmarks?
It has almost nothing to do with benchmarks. Images are typically best supported in the form of files. They are more easily manipulated by external tools. The web browser sees an image as a single HTTP request. Invoking the PHP script engine, parsing the script, and executing a SQL query to retrieve the image from the database is less efficient than letting the web server just send the file. Image files do not need to be constrained by the rigid requirements of a relational database. I could go on, but it should be clear enough that putting images in a database is not a good idea. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
