The kneejerk response always seems to be #2, store images in the filesystem
and store their paths in the database.
I like to compromise: store the original image in a dedicated "image data"
table in the database (keep a separate table for image meta data
(date/title/category/whatever) for faster
Hi Steve & *:
Based on my experience, not only for MySQL, but any Database, I think it's
better to keep just links to images instead of keep them in the database.
Some of the reasons are, for example, when you need to update an image,
you don't need to touch the database, only change the file. A
