You can do either, many people have responded and given their thoughs on the matter. I personally avoid storing images in a database, the filesystem is better equipped IMO to handle files. On top of the overhead of storing the image in your database you will be creating additional database traffic, every image loaded is at least one more database query on the website.
Jason On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 17:16, Manuel Ochoa wrote: > > I writting a php program for a small insurance company and they want to receive >uploaded digital photos. > > Should I store the photos in a mysql database or in a directory on the hard drive? > > If you have experience with this any advice would be appreciated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
