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Asked: 2026-05-30T12:47:13+00:00

I am building a database for a website that will be a cataloge of

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I am building a database for a website that will be a cataloge of products.
I am having a problem with the table of images. I have a php script that resizes the image with three sizes, renames them with a suffix, writes them to a directory and adds a reference to them in a table of images.

I am having trouble figuring out how the thumbnails (the small images) will be associated with the medium and large images since I’m planning to have multiple images for each product. I want to be able to add all thumbnails to a page with a link either to the medium or large image via a php script.

Here is what I have so far,

image-id  product-id  filename              size    caption  width  height  alt
13        1           PassPro150_large.jpg  large   NULL     632    569     NULL
14        1           PassPro150_medium.jpg medium  NULL     250    225     NULL
15        1           PassPro150_small.jpg  small   NULL     115    103     NULL

Is there a standard way to do this? Should I make three tables, one for each size and associate them with a primary-foreign key? I also thought I could do it with string manipulation, replace _small with _large since all images uploaded will have the same postfix. Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    What Joseph said is one solution.
    Or you could create multiple folders different sizes of thumbnails, like thumb_small, thumb_medium and save the images in there with same name.

    You just keep the filename in the database. and when you need to display the image you adjust the url to the particular folder.

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