Question

I have a database with users information such as name, email etc in. When they sign up they must upload a picture. At present when they do. the image goes into a ‘uploads’ folder on the server.

My question is, how do i go about aligning up the database record with the corosponding image in the folder?

Answer 1

You should store the file name / url (make it unique, md5 the users ID or something) in the DB as a reference, this is the best way to handle this type of photo + user relationship.
And as normal, just save the actual file in /uploads/

Simply create a column in your DB called user_photo and save the link to the file /uploads/john_smith_321sf.jpg

That way in the future, you just retrieve it using your database data.