Re: field references file on the network

[Rick James]

> data as well as other PDFs and Images that are located across a few different servers.

Solve that in PHP, not MySQL.

The MySQL table(s) could have VARCHAR column(s) containing strings such as:
http://...pdf
http://...jpg
The PHP code could have something like
$ref = <get the http...jpg from the table>;
echo "<img src='$ref'>";

A pdf might have to be done with an anchor tag:
echo "<a href='$ref'>See the pdf</a>";