paragasu wrote: > i am planning to create a web photo gallery. i know there is a lot > available out there, but i really want to create my own. the problem > is not about creating the photo gallery. > i want it to be scalable. The first question is - how scalable? How many photos and how many users? > the plan is saving the image metadata in the database and keep the > original files in a folder. while it work perfectly, i afraid how many > files 1 directory can keep. Easily more than 100K. Depending on your filesystem, directory access might slow down the bigger it gets. > in 1 year, there going to be more than 1000 photo uploaded or more. > sure it bring problem to maintain thus files. No, 1000 photos in a single directory will not be a problem at all. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
