How do I handle images and thumbnails
You need to deal with images - perhaps uploaded by users, or pulled in from another system. You are likely going to have to cater for multiple versions - thumbs, large, perhaps even raw or 'original' size. You are almost definitely working with a database.
There are three places you can store your images:
- within the database (the 'blob'),
- within the file system, or
- hosted on another site and included in your pages.
And there are two ways your app can respond to different image size requests:
- prepare all images up front and store them in the file system, or
- create them on the fly (on demand).
o How do I handle images and thumbnails - jedd - (summary - store images in file system, using UUID's), o How do I handle images and thumbnails - dcheslow - (summary - I too store images in the file system using UUIDs, I use UUIDs as primary keys so it's easy to associate images with DB records (and clean up when records are deleted), I wrote an image caching library that creates new sizes on demand and stores them in a cache, it checks timestamps and regenerates when needed. If there are no changes, then the cached file is returned. Best of both worlds! o {Your CI login-name goes here}'s take - summary of your approach goes here - COPY-THIS-LINE-WHEN-ADDING-YOURS
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