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this question is confusing me so i thought i should listen to an expert voice !. is it better to upload images to a folder and just save link to mysql, or better upload img itself into a blob mysql field ? thank you very much I have often built systems to store images in the database, there are pros and cons to doing this. Pros: All your data is kept in one place, if you migrate your website/database the images will just be there Its easier to sort/delete/etc... Since you have to serve it via a PHP script, you can perform additional things such as security if required, or image processing

When you save your images (supose you have lots of them) do you store then as blobs in your Database, or as files? Why? Duplicate of: Storing Images in DB - Yea or Nay? I usually go with storing them as files, and store the path in the database. To me, it's a much easier and more natural approach than pushing them into the database as blobs. One argument for storing them in the database: much easier to do full backups, but that depends on your needs. If you need to be able to easily take full snapshots of your database (including the images), then storing them as blobs in the database is

I'm coding an application that will be uploading and deleting many files, i usually just move the files to a folder in the server naming them with the row unique id . But as i understand MySQL also lets me store binary data (files) when would this be a better choice?. Please use solid arguments, like When does using BLOB will mean performance improvement?. P.S: I'm using MyISAM if that matters. Thanks. UPDATE: Related questions : - Storing Images in DB - Yea or Nay? - To Do or Not to Do: Store Images in a Database (thanks to Sebastian) UPDATE 2 Storing the files in the database is not a need i

I'm trying to write and update a pdf document in a blob column but I'm just able to update the blob only writing more data than the previous stored data. If I try to update the blob column with a smaller document data I get only a corrupted pdf. First the blob column has been initialized using empty_blob() function. I wrote the sample Java class below to test this behaviour. I run it the first time with 'true' as first parameter of the main method so in the first row there's stored a document of about 31kB and in the second row there's a document of 278kB. Then I run it with 'false' as

I need to add a UTF-8 byte-order-mark to generated text data on client side. How do I do that? Using new Blob(['\xEF\xBB\xBF' + content]) yields '"my data"' , of course. Neither did '\uBBEF\x22BF' work (with '\x22' == '"' being the next character in content ). Is it possible to prepend the UTF-8 BOM in JavaScript to a generated text? Yes, I really do need the UTF-8 BOM in this case. Erik Töyrä Silfverswärd Prepend \ufeff to the string. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/2yfce773(v=vs.94).aspx See discussion between @jeff-fischer and @casey for details on UTF-8 and UTF-16 and the