Users uploading pictures

Hi All,

I have a web site I am developing, and have a question. I would like
members to be able to upload pictures.

Do you think they should be saved as individual files or should they be
put in an MySQL database? Which would you recommend, and do you have any
sample code for accomplishing this?

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

And on the seventh day God said,
"I will rest . . . Murphy take over."

C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 9:25 AM:

Hi All,

I have a web site I am developing, and have a question. I would like
members to be able to upload pictures.

Do you think they should be saved as individual files or should they be
put in an MySQL database? Which would you recommend, and do you have any
sample code for accomplishing this?

Whatever the answer, it has nothing to do with Javascript.

--
Randy
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Randy Webb wrote on 05 mei 2006 in comp.lang.javascript:

C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 9:25 AM:
Hi All,

I have a web site I am developing, and have a question. I would like
members to be able to upload pictures.

Do you think they should be saved as individual files or should they be
put in an MySQL database? Which would you recommend, and do you have any
sample code for accomplishing this?

Whatever the answer, it has nothing to do with Javascript.

Unless you are using ASP-Jscript.

The NGs then (if using ASP, I mean!) to ask are:

news:microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general
or
news:microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.db


--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Randy Webb wrote:

C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 9:25 AM:

Hi All,

I have a web site I am developing, and have a question. I would like
members to be able to upload pictures.

Do you think they should be saved as individual files or should they be
put in an MySQL database? Which would you recommend, and do you have any
sample code for accomplishing this?


Whatever the answer, it has nothing to do with Javascript.


Actually it does Randy, I suspect that however I choose to get those

pictures, I will use a combination of JavaScript and PHP to manipulate
the pictures.

Right now I use a combination of JavaScript and PHP to handle the
existing databases so it would seem the same will be the case for
picture storage.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

And on the seventh day God said,
"I will rest . . . Murphy take over."

C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 10:09 AM:

Randy Webb wrote:
C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 9:25 AM:

Hi All,

I have a web site I am developing, and have a question. I would like
members to be able to upload pictures.

Do you think they should be saved as individual files or should they be
put in an MySQL database? Which would you recommend, and do you have any
sample code for accomplishing this?

Whatever the answer, it has nothing to do with Javascript.


Actually it does Randy,

Actually, it doesn't Joseph. There are two parts to what you are doing.
The What and the How. The How would be PHP and JS, the What would be
saving images, and saving images on the server - whether as individual
files or in a MySQL database - has nothing to do with client side
Javascript.

If anything, its a PHP/MySQL question and that would be more on how to
accomplish it instead of what you are trying to accomplish.

I suspect that however I choose to get those pictures, I will
use a combination of JavaScript and PHP to manipulate the
pictures.

And that is fine, but whether to save them in a Database (which is an
odd sounding request) or in a file has nothing to do with JS.

Right now I use a combination of JavaScript and PHP to handle the
existing databases so it would seem the same will be the case for
picture storage.

Your Javascript doesn't handle the databases, PHP does. JS on the client
may tell PHP to do it but it is PHP doing the work on the server.

--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

Evertjan. said the following on 5/5/2006 10:05 AM:

Randy Webb wrote on 05 mei 2006 in comp.lang.javascript:

C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 9:25 AM:
Hi All,

I have a web site I am developing, and have a question. I would like
members to be able to upload pictures.

Do you think they should be saved as individual files or should they be
put in an MySQL database? Which would you recommend, and do you have any
sample code for accomplishing this?
Whatever the answer, it has nothing to do with Javascript.

Unless you are using ASP-Jscript.

<pedant>
ASP uses JScript, not Javascript, which I specified
</pedant>

But it still has nothing to do with c.l.j and client side scripting.

--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

Randy Webb wrote on 05 mei 2006 in comp.lang.javascript:

pedant
ASP uses JScript, not Javascript, which I specified
/pedant

<rebuff>
True, however, the two are intermingled in the sense that clientside
IE javascript is really jscript, and that(!) jscript is spoken here,
just as the ECMA javascript variant is.
</rebuff>

But it still has nothing to do with c.l.j and client side scripting.

c.l.j. is not clientside "in browser" only, but certainly clientside
oriented.

That is why I pointed to the two ASP NGs.


--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Randy Webb wrote:

C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 10:09 AM:
Randy Webb wrote:
C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 9:25 AM:

Hi All,

I have a web site I am developing, and have a question. I would like
members to be able to upload pictures.

Do you think they should be saved as individual files or should they be
put in an MySQL database? Which would you recommend, and do you have any
sample code for accomplishing this?

Whatever the answer, it has nothing to do with Javascript.


Actually it does Randy,

Actually, it doesn't Joseph. There are two parts to what you are doing.
The What and the How. The How would be PHP and JS, the What would be
saving images, and saving images on the server - whether as individual
files or in a MySQL database - has nothing to do with client side
Javascript.

If anything, its a PHP/MySQL question and that would be more on how to
accomplish it instead of what you are trying to accomplish.

I suspect that however I choose to get those pictures, I will
use a combination of JavaScript and PHP to manipulate the
pictures.

And that is fine, but whether to save them in a Database (which is an
odd sounding request) or in a file has nothing to do with JS.

Actually it is not really an odd question. I am use to using Clarion
for web based databases, and I can save them as a blob and have a
template that converts the JPG to/from blob. This is my first time
working on a web site where I didn't use Clarion for the database,
and I am finding that I have to use JavaScript to talk to PHP. I was
simply trying to find out which would be easier.

I was given a PHP script to handle the actual file saving, now I
need to figure out how to access the script via JavaScript.

Right now I use a combination of JavaScript and PHP to handle the
existing databases so it would seem the same will be the case for
picture storage.

Your Javascript doesn't handle the databases, PHP does. JS on the client
may tell PHP to do it but it is PHP doing the work on the server.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

And on the seventh day God said,
"I will rest . . . Murphy take over."

C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 1:34 PM:

Randy Webb wrote:
C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 10:09 AM:

<snip>

I suspect that however I choose to get those pictures, I will
use a combination of JavaScript and PHP to manipulate the
pictures.
And that is fine, but whether to save them in a Database (which is an
odd sounding request) or in a file has nothing to do with JS.

Actually it is not really an odd question.

OK, for me it was. I have always saved them as files and been done with it.

I am use to using Clarion for web based databases, and I can save
them as a blob and have a template that converts the JPG to/from blob.

OK.

This is my first time working on a web site where I didn't use Clarion
for the database, and I am finding that I have to use JavaScript to talk
to PHP. I was simply trying to find out which would be easier.

It would be easier and more efficient to simply save the image files.

I was given a PHP script to handle the actual file saving, now I
need to figure out how to access the script via JavaScript.

<form action="saveImageFiles.php" ....>
<input type="file">
<input type="submit" value="Upload files">
</form>

Then the file gets submitted to the server, no JS needed.

--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

Randy Webb wrote:

C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 1:34 PM:
Randy Webb wrote:
C.Joseph Drayton said the following on 5/5/2006 10:09 AM:

snip

I suspect that however I choose to get those pictures, I will
use a combination of JavaScript and PHP to manipulate the
pictures.
And that is fine, but whether to save them in a Database (which is an
odd sounding request) or in a file has nothing to do with JS.
Actually it is not really an odd question.

OK, for me it was. I have always saved them as files and been done with it.

I am use to using Clarion for web based databases, and I can save
them as a blob and have a template that converts the JPG to/from blob.

OK.

This is my first time working on a web site where I didn't use Clarion
for the database, and I am finding that I have to use JavaScript to talk
to PHP. I was simply trying to find out which would be easier.

It would be easier and more efficient to simply save the image files.

I was given a PHP script to handle the actual file saving, now I
need to figure out how to access the script via JavaScript.

form action="saveImageFiles.php" ....
input type="file"
input type="submit" value="Upload files"
/form

Then the file gets submitted to the server, no JS needed.

Thanks Randy,

I will give it a try.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

And on the seventh day God said,
"I will rest . . . Murphy take over."