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Old 05-26-2010, 10:14 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Village Idiot View Post
It's doable, but the filesystem is far faster.

I would just store the URL in the database. That is as simple as an insert statement in a varchar field.
I agree, let the web server do what its good at and let mysql do what its good at.

If you insist on this method, look into the Mysql BLOB type.
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