codeigniter image uploading mysql

Question

I wanted to know if I was uploading an image in CodeIgniter to a database what would be my

$config[\'upload_path\']

All the examples I have

Answer 1

You can read this great article called Storing Images in Mysql.

The article covers the following:

• Isn’t this a bad idea?
• What is a BLOB?
• Creating an image table
• The upload form
• Uploading the image
• The upload() function
• Display an image from the database
• Displaying all the information

But not to leave you empty handed, look into Blob, it's a data-type for colums in MySQL ( and various other dbms ). This will let you store data such as Images and other binary file-types.

The idea of storing files and images in the database is in general the same as storing them on the filesystem, the layer in-between upload and having the actual file is just different.

You cannot just set your upload-path and hope everything is solved, you need to get some dirt on your hands aswell!