Help with community system

[cordoprod]

Hello

 

I develope a community system and i want the users to be able to upload a personal picture.

 

But, what i want is when they upload it they shouldn't just upload it to a folder e.g images/

 

If the username is cordoprod i want folders like c/o/r/d/cordoprod  .. understand?

 

I also need help when i should view the image.. like what code should i use to get the image source?

 

All help gladly appreciated

[DarkWater]

You should have one universal images/ folder instead of a bunch of little folders to save disk space and not have a confusing directory tree.  Why do you want all those directories?

 

And you can just do:

echo '<img src="images/' . $imagename . '" />';

 

Assuming that $imagename contains the image name.

[dptr1988]

Having nested directories like that is for avoiding problems caused by having to many files in a directory. It is a common way to do that. The apache cache is one example

[DarkWater]

Having nested directories like that is for avoiding problems caused by having to many files in a directory. It is a common way to do that. The apache cache is one example

 

It's not at easy to manage, honestly. >_>  Especially if people will be constantly removing/uploading pictures.

[Fadion]

If the username is cordoprod i want folders like c/o/r/d/cordoprod  .. understand?

 

U want your folders c/o/r/d ??? Thats weird!! Its okay to avoid overfilling one images folder, but u can always have a folder for each user. In such way u can easily find the images (assuming u have db based users) and have a good directory tree.

 

About getting the images source, u should save it in the db and display it in <img> tag.

[blackcell]

I would go with the user-specific directory. eg

<?php

echo "<image src='images/".$userName."/".$imageName".'/>";

?>