Inserting images as BLOBs - any way to avoid using base64encode?

[Terry Judd]

Thanks Andre - I've used that sort of approach in the past but the guys
providing the content on this project are very protective of their stuff
(images) and a 'real' database seems the best option.

Regards,

Terry...

> Terry,
> why not keeping the images as external files and putting a field in the
> database with the file path? this would lead to databases with less chunk in
> it since to use the images you'd have to output them to files anyway.
> 
> something like this:
> 
> Hard Drive                           Image ID Table
>       My Database
> myImage.jpg <---------> Record that match id to file <------------------>
>  field image_id
> 
> This is a simple solution where you use a intermediary table to match id's
> with files, this way if you change a file name or path, you just need to
> update one table entry and not all your database entries that deal with that
> file. This makes easy to "reconnect" lost media files if things move around
> in the Hard Drive.
> 
> I would not put media files inside SQL Databases.
> 
> Best
> Andre
> 

-- 
Dr Terry Judd
Lecturer in Educational Technology (Design)
Biomedical Multimedia Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3052
AUSTRALIA

61-3 8344 0187