Question

I have a very large table of records (about 30,000), which include an id as the primary key. I need to create a folder for each record, and put an image (image url is saved inside the table) inside each folder. Any ideas how this could be done?

Answer 1

$sql = "SELECT id, url FROM yourtable";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()) {
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    mkdir("/path/to/location/{$row['id']}");
    file_put_contents(file_get_contents($url), "/path/to/location/{$row['id']}/image.jpg");
}

connecting to the db, picking out appropriate filenames, and most DEFINITELY adding some error handling, etc… is left as an exercise to the reader.