Question

Suppose there is a site where we are uploading images. Now, when we have to display the album of that particular logged-in user. What we can do is:

1. We save the path of that image in the database and retrieve the image
2. Save only the name(unique) of the image and use fopen() because we save all the uploaded images in a single folder

Now my question is:

What are the various options to retrieve that file instead of fopen()? Meaning, is there anything else that is faster than this?

Answer 1

You shouldn’t need to use fopen to display a gallery. Why can’t you just show the images like that:

<img src="/folder/with/your/images/<?php echo $unique_name; ?>" />

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