Handling Images
 

Looking for guidance on how to most easily handle images on a site i'm building. Its a basic site allowing users to login and update details - want funrtionality whereby they can add images which will then be displayed. Obviously i could take the images in and store them as BLOB type on a mySQL table. Is this easy to do? Also could i simply create a form where the images could be attached to an email and sent to me for storage in an images folder on the web server or alternatively allow users to add images to the images file on the web server. Any guidance, thoughts appreciated.

Cheers.

Leave the database for data and the filesystem for files.Just upload the images to a folder and have them linked to from the database If you dont want them to be directly accessed immediately just upload them below the webroot.

Thanks for the guidance. I assume i just manage display of the files by storing the file location on the database. Cheers.

Further - any links to guidance on how to manipulate the images such as size etc and also how to actually load them into a file directory on the web server? Never done it before so pretty new to this. Any help much appreciated.

For image manipulation, use the imageGD library for PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagegd.php

Getting them on to the server has to be done via an upload forums, there are tons of guides on Google for this.

Thanks i'll check it out. Cheers.

For image manipulation, try WideImage - http://wideimage.sourceforge.net/ - it's really simple to use, with nice documentation.