This is true I hope, I am using prepared statements with mysqli so
they should be getting cached as far as I can tell from the
documentation.

Is a database not a file anyway?


On Apr 15, 12:33 pm, Sidney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Without discussing the pros/cons of whether to use blobs in the 1st
> place, one point to note is that with caching, the binary data will
> get served from the file system in most cases anyway.
>
> On Apr 15, 9:08 am, Rufus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The images are from 4-20k max and it seems pretty darn speedy. Also
> > the web app is just a management portal for an advertising widget, so
> > it will only be used by 3 or 4 people at any one time.
>
> > So I think nobody can argue that it is not ok to store it as a blob in
> > this situation?
>
> > On Apr 15, 2:04 am, brian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:45 AM, burzum <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > You should use the MediaView class (see API documentation) to send or
> > > > display the file data.
>
> > > I hadn't thought of that. I suppose it would need to be overloaded,
> > > though, to deal with data from the DB.
>
> > > > And files should not be stored in a database in
> > > > the case of a web app.
>
> > > That's a matter of opinion (and use-case). I certainly wouldn't do
> > > that for regular images but there are legitimate reasons for storing
> > > some files in a DB.
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