anyone knows an excelent php script to read and store images from mysql? please
IT is not avantageous to do so.
What is this for?
Probably a better idea is to store filenames of the images in the DB, instead of the actual images themselves.
why there are a lot of people against storing binaries in db? why is it bad?
Because in most cases there's really no need or advantage in storing binaries such as images in databases. They would make the database unnecessarily large. Keeping images in files and storing names in the database is usually much more efficient.
but if you store in in files, you need to use more resources to access the filesystem. Plus, don't you introduce more overhead with worrying about the permissions and everything?
