I agree with your points that storing files as files on disk is better than putting them into a database column; there are many articles written on this topic that agree with this assessment. However, I must disagree with this one point:
On Jan 20, 2011, at 16:22, euromark wrote: > - a) 33% more space needed (base64encoded) There's no reason to store them base-64 encoded (or encoded in any way) in the database; they're just stored as blobs -- binary data -- and I don't know of a reason why the database engine wouldn't just natively store that, taking up roughly the same amount of space as it would to store it as a regular file. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
