Ok, I have been told that it's not a good idea to store binary files
(like pdfs etc.) in MySQL, but in the file system. I am in desperat
need of a system where I can upload binary files like this, categorize
them, add some extra info to each file, and list them/make them
downloadable. (listing and making files downloadable is easy with
PHP).
If I upload each file to a folder in the web server file system, how
is it then that I can refer extra information like a category and some
metadata to the files that I later will list? No database=no extra
info?
I need a human understandable answere, since I am a really newbie in
PHP and MySQL. Hopefully a code example. If someone could help.
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Nosferatum contained the following:
>If I upload each file to a folder in the web server file system, how
is it then that I can refer extra information like a category and some
metadata to the files that I later will list? No database=no extra
info?
I need a human understandable answere, since I am a really newbie in
PHP and MySQL. Hopefully a code example. If someone could help.
Well a database table would be best but you could store the information
as a csv file.
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Nosferatum wrote:
Ok, I have been told that it's not a good idea to store binary files
(like pdfs etc.) in MySQL, but in the file system. I am in desperat
need of a system where I can upload binary files like this, categorize
them, add some extra info to each file, and list them/make them
downloadable. (listing and making files downloadable is easy with
PHP).
If I upload each file to a folder in the web server file system, how
is it then that I can refer extra information like a category and some
metadata to the files that I later will list? No database=no extra
info?
I need a human understandable answere, since I am a really newbie in
PHP and MySQL. Hopefully a code example. If someone could help.
You should really be asking this in a MySQL newsgroup - such as
comp.database.m ysql.
But I will also add - how may of those people who say that have actually
tried? I suspect none. I have been doing it for almost 20 years and it
works fine.
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Nosferatum wrote:
Ok, I have been told that it's not a good idea to store binary files
(like pdfs etc.) in MySQL, but in the file system. I am in desperat
need of a system where I can upload binary files like this, categorize
them, add some extra info to each file, and list them/make them
downloadable. (listing and making files downloadable is easy with
PHP).
If I upload each file to a folder in the web server file system, how
is it then that I can refer extra information like a category and some
metadata to the files that I later will list? No database=no extra
info?
I need a human understandable answere, since I am a really newbie in
PHP and MySQL. Hopefully a code example. If someone could help.
I'm certainly not the best coder here by miles but my suggestion is that
you create a table to store the information about the files and a filename
including path. You save the file to that path and use a SQL query to
extract the path name when you want to access the file. Up to you what you
use for file names. In my own photo database I am writing I use an auto
incrementing primary key as the file path for example, so the thumbnail for
photo_id=123456 lives at /data_dir/1/2/3/4/5/small.jpg. Someone will have
a better idea than this, but this one seems to work for low usage.
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:
But I will also add - how may of those people who say that have actually
tried? I suspect none. I have been doing it for almost 20 years and it
works fine.
Files belong in the filesystem. It's what it does.
Data belongs in the database. It's what it does.
There, done it: that should stoke the fires of debate.
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be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".
Peter Chant wrote:
photo_id=123456 lives at /data_dir/1/2/3/4/5/small.jpg.
Stick it in /data_dir/123456/small.jpg.
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be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".
Nosferatum wrote:
If I upload each file to a folder in the web server file system, how
is it then that I can refer extra information like a category and some
metadata to the files that I later will list? No database=no extra
info?
Store the metadata in a table; use the id as the directory name for the
files: /data_dir/$id/ contains the file.
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be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".
Mary Pegg wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>But I will also add - how may of those people who say that have actually
tried? I suspect none. I have been doing it for almost 20 years and it
works fine.
Files belong in the filesystem. It's what it does.
Data belongs in the database. It's what it does.
There, done it: that should stoke the fires of debate.
Sorry, I don't bite on trolling expeditions. If you want to discuss it,
take it to comp.database.m ysql.
Or try it yourself.
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Mary Pegg wrote:
Nosferatum wrote:
>If I upload each file to a folder in the web server file system, how
is it then that I can refer extra information like a category and some
metadata to the files that I later will list? No database=no extra
info?
Store the metadata in a table; use the id as the directory name for the
files: /data_dir/$id/ contains the file.
Spoken by someone who obviously has no idea what they are talking about.
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:
Mary Pegg wrote:
>Nosferatum wrote:
>>If I upload each file to a folder in the web server file system, how
is it then that I can refer extra information like a category and some
metadata to the files that I later will list? No database=no extra
info?
Store the metadata in a table; use the id as the directory name for the
files: /data_dir/$id/ contains the file.
Spoken by someone who obviously has no idea what they are talking about.
Because files obviously belong in the database?
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