Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/27/07 00:51

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.mysql.

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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