How to show a lot of pictures with php?

ulruc

Some of my friends told to me that when you have a lot of pictures on a web site, you can create yourself a database with them so you don't have to code them all in HTML or XHTML.

If that is really true, can someone tell me how can I do that. Il have actually more than 250 pictures and I'm tired to code them one by one each time I need to change the setup of that section.

Who can help me?

Rhysige

its very possible, lets say for a really simple method you have a database with a table called `images` and in this table are the fields `id` (if you want to be able to select specific ones later easily) and `path`.
Now in the `path` field are all the image paths. A php script to just display all of these would be something like this.

dingin

Why don't give a try with Coppermine? It's more simple to host many pictures in the web

ccarter24

Did you mean create a database that stores the images files, or just the file information. I know oracle can store binary files up to 4 GB. It's pretty cool. But I don't know about MySQL.

PublicKiosk

mysql can store the text. it can't store the image. so once the image is on your site, its path should be added to the mysql database.

so if 'image1.png' is uploaded to 'http://www.example.com/images/image1.png'
then the php engine should add the image name 'image1.png' to the database as a TEXT format. then, when you fetch the rows, the code would resemble:

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