Storing a large number of images

Question

I\'m thinking about developing my own PHP based gallery for storing lots of pictures, maybe in the tens of thousands.

At the database I\'ll point to the url of the i

Answer 1

I am currently facing this problem, and what Isaac wrote got me interested in the idea. Tho my function differs a little.

function _getFilePath($id) {
    $id = sprintf("%06d", $id);
    $level = array();
    for($lvl = 3; $lvl >= 1; $lvl--)
        $level[$lvl] = substr($id, (($lvl*2)-2), 2);
    return implode('/', array_reverse($level)).'.jpg';
}

My images are only in thousands so i only have this up to 999999 limit and so it would split that into 99/99/99.jpg or 43524 into 04/35/24.jpg