I have found an article about storing images in an mysql-database.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/florian19991014.php3
Maybe we will try this way.
Bye,
Anatol
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Von: Emiliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. J�nner 2000 20:15
Betreff: Re: [midgard] Storing pictures in the database?
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Carilda Thomas wrote:
>
> > From a pure systems point of view, I fail to see why anyone would want
> > to. If the picture is accessed from the file system, it is served as an
> > http request, but we are all using keep-alive, aren't we, so there
should
> > be minimal overhead here.
> >
> > If the file is stored in the database as a large object, then the entire
> > file must be packaged into some shared memory location and transferred
to
> > whatever process is looking for it. Now, getting it out of the database
> > is still a filesystem access, with the additional overhead that the data
> > base puts on it.
>
> Not necesarily. MySQL can't but most large database seem to offer BLOB
> streaming so you can stream straight to the client. FS access is fine
> but deeply nested directories can be a strain on the server too.
>
> Anyway, the issue is not whether the BLOBs get stored in the FS or
> he DB, but whether Midgard will offer a clean, integrated approach
> to management of BLOBs. If you want over the web management you don't
> want to have people need to do FTP just for the images, and I generally
> don't want to grant my content managers any sort of system account
> (telnet, ftp or otherwise) on my systems. And replication must not involve
> two totally unrelated steps. And security must be managed by one means
> (and I hate apache's security 'management').
>
> emile
>
>
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