Francois Dumais wrote:

> I am wandering how to deal with picture attachments.  First I got to
> understand how it works.
>
> Where is the attachment?  Uploaded in the database? Or is it placed in the
> blob respository I made in Linux?

It's in the blob repository. Metadata about the bkob is in the database.

> Which one of these two techniques is best?

With MySQL, you don't want blobs to be in the database.

> If you want absolutely to have a reference to a *.gif file in dynamic page,
> how do you do that?

Unless the attachment is to a page record (which can be served
autonomously), you'll need to write a minimal PHP page to serve the blob
out.

Emile


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