Re: [PHP] image files - upload and managment

2004-10-31 Thread Greg Donald
On 30 Oct 2004 22:30:35 -, Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have difficulty believing retrieving an image from a database will have similar speed performance as simply grabbing it from the filesystem... and if you're seeing a need to cache images on the filesystem

[PHP] image files - upload and managment

2004-10-30 Thread Jaskirat Singh
Hi People, I am writing a web app on LAMP. The app is sort of yellow pages where people can login and post advertisments with pictures. App needs to allow users to upload pictures. (jpg and gif), needs to create thumbnails of those pictures and to store thumbnails and full pictures. App needs

Re: [PHP] image files - upload and managment

2004-10-30 Thread Jason Wong
On Saturday 30 October 2004 09:43, Jaskirat Singh wrote: 1) Storage and retrieval - File system sounds like a better choice over database. We are talking about 20 thousand plus pictures. Using a file system is usually the better choice. With the quantity of files you're handling it might be

Re: [PHP] image files - upload and managment

2004-10-30 Thread Robby Russell
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 02:43 -0700, Jaskirat Singh wrote: Hi People, I am writing a web app on LAMP. The app is sort of yellow pages where people can login and post advertisments with pictures. App needs to allow users to upload pictures. (jpg and gif), needs to create thumbnails of those

Re: [PHP] image files - upload and managment

2004-10-30 Thread raditha dissanayake
Robby Russell wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 02:43 -0700, Jaskirat Singh wrote: Hi People, I am writing a web app on LAMP. The app is sort of yellow pages where people can login and post advertisments with pictures. App needs to allow users to upload pictures. (jpg and gif), needs to create

Re: [PHP] image files - upload and managment

2004-10-30 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Robby Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 02:43 -0700, Jaskirat Singh wrote: App needs to allow users to upload pictures. (jpg and gif), needs to create thumbnails of those pictures and to store thumbnails and full pictures. App needs to manage all those files - can be

Re: [PHP] image files - upload and managment

2004-10-30 Thread Robby Russell
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 22:30 +, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: * Robby Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 02:43 -0700, Jaskirat Singh wrote: App needs to allow users to upload pictures. (jpg and gif), needs to create thumbnails of those pictures and to store thumbnails

Re: [PHP] image files - upload and managment

2004-10-30 Thread Jason Wong
On Saturday 30 October 2004 23:06, Robby Russell wrote: I understand the argument regarding a future change in thumbnail sizes. However, generating thumbnails on a filesystem of images is something that is easily scripted and can be performed on an as-needed basis. (ImageMagick is great