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Kangtomo and lancersupraskyline are trying to point out that storing the images in the database is the worst possible way to do it. As a developer myself, I fully agree with them. Binary files do not belong in databases. I would recommend taking the images out of the database and just saving them as files. There's no advantage to putting them in the database, and in fact it actually decreasesthe performance of your application. It also makes your application use more server resources, and databases with BLOBs are more difficult to back up as well (often due to size, but I've seen cases where the .sql file doesn't store the BLOB correctly when the DB is exported). The reason they both keep saying to research is because researching would have found numerous other people saying not to do this, such as those linked in lancesupraskyline's post above.