[PHP-DB] Apache 2.2 + PHP5.2 + php_oci8.dll

2006-12-22 Thread james tanhs
Sorry, I posted into the php-general newsgroup earlier. Hi, I saw numerous posting on this type of posting and no one seems to have a consistent solution to it. Lately, I am quite disapointed with the pain of going thru this configuration and testing. I need to access the oracle 8i server db us

RE: [PHP-DB] Using BLOBs

2006-12-22 Thread Bastien Koert
While storin them in the db is acceptable...I have found that the amount of data to be stored greatly affects the system...therefore I generally do not store the items in the tables, but provide a reference pointer to those items out on the filesystem... Bastien From: Miguel Guirao <[EMAIL P

Re: [PHP-DB] Using BLOBs

2006-12-22 Thread Steven Cruz
Hello; I do not think this is best with any database. Simple put you are large chucks of data that you can not do anything with. On access them, they only slow down the server through put. What I prefer to do is store the location in the database, and let the web server or front end get it d

RE: [PHP-DB] Login script help

2006-12-22 Thread Haig Dedeyan
Thanks Miles. That works nicely. Regards -Original Message- From: Miles Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:29 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Login script help When user has authenticated successfully, start a session with an au

[PHP-DB] Using BLOBs

2006-12-22 Thread Miguel Guirao
Hi!! I'm thinking abou to store MP3 files and PDF files in BLOB fields in a a table, Is this a best practice in MySQL? Or should I just store a reference to a file stored some where in a file system? I want to store sermons and preachings, both a PDF and MP3 for reading and listening on a web s