dynamic tables and image need help plzz

stephenza

Hi there I am a newbie with php using dreamweaver CS5, Ok I have a dynamic table with 3 colums
Id, text discribtion and image. I have already connected to mysql data base and I have already loaded my dynamic table it ia all working fine, the question I have is how do I get my images into the third colum of my dynamic tale it has 10 rows.
I have looked at many tutorials and they all are about form tables my dynamic table is just text and images

id Text discribtion image

regards

bradgrafelman

For one, what the heck is a "dynamic" table? 😉

Now on to the serious questions:

First and foremost, why are you trying to do this at all? Files are often best stored in the file system (hint: look at the name of that system 😉), not in the database.
Where are the images coming from?
What have you tried? Images are no different than any other data you insert into a database - it's all just 1's and 0's.

stephenza

Should i rather then keep all the info on that page as a hard copy HTML with div tags
then rather using MySQL data base and dynamic tables. Thought it would be better to use a database for this.

I am working on a large website with lots of content and many pages not sure what should be hard copy HTML or database then.😕

regards

bradgrafelman

A database would work just fine... I'm just confused on why you keep calling them "dynamic" tables, as if they might instead be "static" tables that you can never change.

stephenza

Yes OK you are right it is a static table with information that would not change. What would be the best way to do this maybe i have started it the wrong way as-well.

johanafm

Brad isn't telling you to not use a database, he's telling you to not store image data in the database. But the filename of an image isn't image data, that's information about where to retrieve it.
As for how to put an image somewhere on a web page, you do it the same way regardless of where or how the image is stored: an img element. Serverside there will however be differences depending on wether you store the image in a database or not. If it's in the databae, the img element's src attribute will have to point to a script file that retrieves the image data from the db and outputs that to the browser. If you store the image in the file system, all you need to do is put its URL in the src attribute.