Upload and image help

[sumfight]

I NEED CODE HELP

 

Here is what I want to do

 

Have a random user upload a picture

It is resized s it does not take up a ton of space

It is stored in a folder

The path is stored in a database

Then have a page that calls the pictures up either in there upload order or random

 

Can someone give me tutorials/code/any help at all? Also I suck with my SQL but it is my database through godaddy, so any extra help(like fields and such) would be greatly appreciated

[GingerRobot]

A random user? What are you doing to do, force them to upload a picture?

 

If you google you will find TONS of examples for this kind of thing. You might have to view tutorials for different bits to get the gist of it though.

[sumfight]

Ok can you tell me if this would be a good idea since I don't really know to much about databases

 

If I can find a script that lets users upload a picture and resize it(possibly add a watermark too) then instead of doing a database since I suck at it, could I just have a random picture from the folder displayed, or would that be a lot of strain on the server?

[GingerRobot]

Nope, that's a perfectly fine thing to do too. Pretty sure you'll find tutorails for it as well.

 

Though it of course a different thing to having a database, which would allow you more control and allow pictures to be linked to users (spose you could do that through file/folder naming, but it wouldn't be pretty) and allow people to browse pictures linked to a user etc.

 

 

[sumfight]

What would be good to google for it?  I have been looking up stuff for 3 hours with no progress

 

I have it where I can upload it into a folder and resize it, but both the old and new file end up in that folder, and I tried to change it but then they both go in the new folder