Dan Lester wrote:
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> I want to create an online photo database, what I haven't been able to figure out is how to make an
> image load into the users web browser when the page is accessed.
[...]
You are asking at the wrong place. MySQL does not deal with the web (because it is totally unrelated to HTTP, HTML, JPEG...). MySQL deals only with the data, thru SQL queries.
So, in your MySQL database, you will either store the image binary representation (in a BLOB colmumn typically) or a reference (eg a file path or URL or number etc...) to it.
All the rest of your question is completely out of scope here; if you code in PHP, ask on a PHP forum....
And look at existing applications already doing similar things.
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