Re: Serving images from Access DB?

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:27:21 +1000
To:	Al Yakus <ayakus(at)kmycomputerservices.com>
Cc:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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G'Day Al,

At 22:47 24/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I am maintaining a site for a friend who is a jeweler and he has a ton of
>images of jewelry he has made and would like to post them to his site.  Does
>anybody know where I could find a tutorial on how to serve images from an
>access database? The images will be thumbnails which should link to a bigger
>view of the piece. Any scripts to automate this or better ideas would be
>appreciated.

The solution is to use the database to hold the name of the image file, not 
the image itself.  Then a simple lookup from the database should reveal the 
appropriate code to place (server side) into the HTML code.


Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au

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