On Thursday 21 December 2006 11:28, Scott Haneda wrote:
> >> What you should do, is grab the 50 images ahead of time, in one select,
> >> and use some php to iterate them and display them.
> >
> > Second, your suggestion is not an option in my case, since the image and
> > the thumbnails are not stored in the database. The database contain image
> > id, image attributes (exposure++) and name of the image and thumbnail
> > file.
>
> That's all the data you need, I am not saying to pull the image out of the
> database, I am saying to pull the file path out of the database and put it
> in your html img src tag.  Its the difference of making one call to the
> database, versus x, where x is as many thumbnails as you have, not to
> mention, x also represents that many http calls to your server, and also,
> that many times php must process that file.

If the image files are within the document path for the Apache web-server. But 
they are not. In order to display an image, a PHP script must be used (a php 
script can access files outside the document path).

But now we are moving away from the config question I had about configurating 
the mysqld server.

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Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
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