peter a wrote:
Hi.
I am currently working on a projekt that will involve uploading files with filesizes up to about 10mb, and all sorts of different filetypes and I havet o Questsions concerning that.
1 ) How should the upload be done? I don't feel all that comfortable posting 10mb-files via a simple html-form, wouldn't that take a while if the connections is slow, and even if it was fast, it would take a minute or two. I was drawing out a upload functions with the built in ftp-functions, but then it occured to me, doesn't a <form> always posts it's content to the server anyway? How do I post large files without worrying about broken uploads, timeouts and all that?
Unless you want to give the users anonymous ftp write access (plain
wrong), you have to go with post uploads. You don't need to worry about
timeouts.
2 ) How should I store the files? I suppose I have to optiones. Database ( I have mySQL installed ) or in folders ( in RedHat8.0 ) Should I build up a folder-structure to hold the files or just put it all in the database? A mySQL table in RedHat can hold 4gb, which is a lot, but my content may exceed that, how coud I check the size of the tables, and dynamically create new databases and when running a member Query, select content from them all?
Would a file structure be better, with a folder strucuture for member a-b store in this folder c-d to in this and so on... Would it be stupid to store a 10000 10mb mpegs in one database?
For files this big and so many, you definately want to go with filesystem.
Any suggestions?
/peter a
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