Laravel image gallery logic

Question

I recently started to develop a pretty huge site. On the site i would like to allow users to upload their sample works. We are pretty limited at the moment so the images wil

Answer 1

The metode of Storing the folder table and using the scandir function is a standared procedure. And allow php to retrive the file names from the folder. If you have a number of files then try categorizing them with year and month order like in wordpress. Like

2012
  01
  02
  03
2013
  01
  02
  03 

etc inside the folder id. So the total number of images in a folder will be comparatively less.