Profile Pictures

[supermerc]

Hey, does anyone know a good tutorial on how to make it so that users can add a picture to their profile?

I try googling it but i dont think im googling the right words because its not giving me anything good.

[trq]

Heres where a little bit of thought comes in handy. Why not google for a tutorial on uploading images, saving there paths to a database field. Then its just a metter of pulling out that path allong with the rest of your users profile data and BOOM! Profiles with images.

[supermerc]

Is there a way to save it to the database thought? It would be easier for me to make it show in their profile.

[simcoweb]

It's not easier to show a pic by it being 'in a database'. Basically what you store 'in the database' is just the image name or the path and the name. There's loads of good tutorials and plenty of code snippets for image/file uploading. Once you understand what happens during the upload then it becomes much easier.

The file is uploaded to a temporary directory initially
The file is given a temporary name initially
The file (temp file) should then be 'moved' to its permanent location
The original file name is stored in the database field
The file is called to your profile page by using the standard <img src= > tag

<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/imagefolder/$image_variable_or_similar" width="400" height="300">

Or, if in a while loop example:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($mysqlquery){
echo "
<img src='http://www.yoursite.com/imagefolder/" . $row['photo'] . "' width='400' height='300'>";
}