At 12:48 PM -0700 16/4/02, Fifield, Mike wrote: >Is anyone out there running a website that stores images as binary data in >MySql that could comment on this?
I only store the images in the database when there is an admin interface which allows new images to be uploaded. If these images were stored in the file system, their directory would need to be world-writable. Instead I store them in a database requiring the upload script to know the username/password. I've never done this with a site which handles millions of hits. I imagine there is a steep performance hit when the images are being accessed a lot. Caching would be the solution to that. ...R. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
