Store swf or link only in database ?

[Anon]

Hey,

I'm using PHP and Mysql to build a site for the flash users to communicate their technique, showoff their own flash movies and polling to praise the good flash makers.

I just wondering whether I should store those uploaded swf file directly in the database or in another places in the server?
And I've got problems to make the swf stored in Mysql to be displayable in the page produced by php scripts.

Can any one give me some advices?

Many Thanks
Philip

[Anon]

Unless you're really paranoid about users having write permissions to a directory (for upload purposes) in your filesystem, store only a link in your database.

The web server can fetch a file from the filesystem much more quickly than it can run a PHP script to extract a blob from a database. After all, fetching files is a web server's life.

Otherwise, you're just using the database as a filesystem.