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desertdirk

12-01-2009, 12:23 PM

I have inherited a realestate web site to work on. Clients are able to upload photos for their listings and presently all photos go into one folder. I am wondering if it would be better to create a folder for each client when they register then all their photos go into their own folder.
The site is a bit complex now and messing with the code might break something however, having thousands of photos in one folder seems awkward.

Any suggestions?
thanks
DD

Fang

12-02-2009, 01:02 AM

I would suggest you use separate folders for clients. One folder for all is a maintenance nightmare.

slaughters

12-03-2009, 02:10 PM

I don't know. Which is easier to maintain.

A 1000 photos in one folder - or a 1000 folders with one photo each ? (actually, both kind of blow)

A better reason to use one folder per customer is security. It is easier to limit a customers "write access" to just the files in his folder than it is to limit him to just a few files out of one folder.