really curious how to store or retrive images

[desjardins2010]

can some help me with a small problem... I have a site that I want to create an admin section for that will allow the user to update a certain page with it's contents- thus far i'm ok cause more is just text and link however there is an image for each entry that I'm unsure how to store...

 

I've been told it's unfair practice to store images in a DB and if that's true then storing them inside folders isn't a problem if that's how it's done - but if that is the case would I just include an upload script to put the image on the server and reference the image In the DB? and in that's the case what foundation would I use while building the DB structure would I use to store links to such images?

 

 

[Ch0cu3r]

When the image is uploaded you save the images path to the database. When you want to display the image you echo the images path into the <img> tag eg

echo '<img src="' . $row['image_path']; '" />';

Edited December 15, 2013 by Ch0cu3r

[cyberRobot]

Minor correction...this

echo '<img src="' . $row['image_path']; '" />';

 

Should be

echo '<img src="' . $row['image_path'] . '" />';