Uploading images

[Anon]

Hi,

I'm developing a website where visitors can upload photo's (jpg-files) and post a subscript to go with the picture. When a visitor has uploaded his or her image it should be displayed as a thumbnail along with previous submissions. When a thumnail is clicked the full image with the subscript should be displayed. My question is now: What is the best way to handle this process? (I already know how to upload files) I'm relatively new to php and I have no knowledge of Mysql. All suggestions are welcome!

Thanks, Michiel

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I assume that each user has a unique ID or something else to identify him/her?
If so you can just rename the uploaded image to that ID, and put it on disk somewhere.

Then when you want to display the images you can just create the filename from the ID and print an IMG tag.

As for the thumbnails, read the manual about teh GD functions, they will let you load an image, resize it, and save it as a new file.
Read that before you start messing with examples and codesnippets.

[rulian]

Well I suggest you become familiar with mysql, upload the image and save it's path along with some form of user identification, subscript, and image id number onto a table.

When you want to display the images, you can use the image path, id, and user to specify which images are selected. when someone goes to view the image full view, you query the image and the subscript only using the id. for example
fullview.php?id=2 will display a image by user 1

fullview.php?id=3 will display an image by user 3