Question

What is the proper way to setup an image field in a MySQL table using phpmyadmin…?

For example, after the user registers I want them to upload a picture.
MySQL will link to the picture and associate it with the user.

What is the best way to store the association?

Answer 1

You could let the user upload a picture and store it’s entire content in your database as a BLOB or you could store the path to the file in a VARCHAR field. I would recommend the later.

Sample user table:

 CREATE TABLE `user` (
     user_id int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
     user_name varchar(64) NOT NULL,
     user_picture varchar(255)
 );