Re: Advice on dynamic graphics with WO
Re: Advice on dynamic graphics with WO
- Subject: Re: Advice on dynamic graphics with WO
- From: Michael Engelhart <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:51:09 -0500
This is generally a bad idea in my opinion. There's much more
overhead in retrieving image data from a database then there is in just
letting Apache serve up the image. Apache has been highly optimized
just for this purpose. Databases generally have not.
My suggestion is to just store a URL for the image in the database and
write that URL to the dynamic page. Or if you know the path is always
going to be the same you could simply store the filename.
Mike
On Dec 31, 2003, at 4:52 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
I know that Apache is the way to go for vending static page graphics
that have been designed into my HTML pages, however, should I be
storing variable graphics, such as dynamic page graphics (database
photos, artwork files, etc.) in my database?
Has anyone got a strategy on how to handle this? Is this a feasible
strategy: Put a single "VariableDocs" directory on my network with a
symbolic link to it in the web server Apache Documents folder, so that
I only have to write once to one folder and multiple web servers will
see the graphic files via the symbolic link ("shortcut")?? ..... any
and all advice is appreciated.
-Kieran
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