I'm pretty much trying to create an admin page where I can upload images to the server and then display these images. I've know how to upload a whole file to MySQL, but can I then retrieve the file and display it, or is this just for actually downloading the file. Should I store the path instead if I just want to display the image?
I personally store the filename only, and link to the original. Mainly because I'm anal about MySQL backups regularaly, and it takes forever with all the binary content.
We've had this discussion several times throughout the forum, so it shouldn't be too hard to dig up why it is a bad idea. Although it does seem like a good idea, it is infact much slowwwwwwwwer than storing the filename.