thanks Richard .. sorry dev.. i don't know this subject is quite sensitive here :( > I think I'm gonna dive into the archives then. To see for myself what > left such a scars upon that subject. i guess, i have to prepare my oxygen tank to dive into the archives. i am quite curious to find out what happen about this.. On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Richard Heyes <richardh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > some friend of mine ague about this matter, this morning. they say, > saving > > image in > > database is more professional. I am not really agree with that,since i > am > > just a novice programmer. > > Well, bearing in mind I only have experience of MySQL, the general > consensus is to save it to a file on you hard drive and store the file > name in the database. If for whatever reason you can't or don't want to > do that, then at least store it in a separate table that only gets > touched when the image is requested. > > -- > Richard Heyes > Employ me: > http://www.phpguru.org/cv >