User Gallery

[whiteboikyle]

Okay well i am creating a site which will have a user gallery. AKA Each member will be able to upload their photos. (Kinda like myspace).

 

Now, a few questions.

When they upload their image. Should i encrypt the name? and/or Randomize the name?

 

When they upload, how can i check to see if that number already exist or not?

 

But when i do this, its going to be like the following

 

image.php?userID=theiruserid&picID=picID or w/e

 

so that it will only find the pic for each userid that was assigned to it.

[Caesar]

You can always do something like...

<?php

$img_name = md5(time()).$extension;

?>

 

Not very likely you'll have duplicates unless, the time/date on the server is changed.

 

Edit: I assume you're going to store/log the fact they uploaded an image in your db. So yeah, you store the image name and in the same table, the user id associated with it.

[dawsba]

id add on to caesar's note and add

$file_name = md5(time()).extension;

while(file_exists($file_name)){$file_name = rand(1,1000).$filename;}

 

just in case of server bugs etc