storing images

[Anon]

What is the preferred methond of storing uploaded images, in a directory with information about the image stored in the db, or the image AND related data all in the DB?

Is image storage in the DB reliable? Will a db dump actually back the images up as well if they are in the db?

Thanks!
Aaron

[spider_man]

Unless you have a HUGE amount of images, the database is just as reliable a regular directory, and much more easy to manage, plus it's not available from other sites unless you want to.
Of course, you must store it in a binary datatype, not a text one.
And, no, I have never had to recover an image database, but I think there shouldn't be any trouble.

That's my humble contribution.

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Storing images in a database is useless.
This subject has been discussed a few times.

It's much better to store the images using the filesystem, that's what it's made for.
Use the database only for storing data that you want to search in, such as the reference to the imagefile on disk.