Storing/displaying image urls in a database?

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 by admin

Hi
Basically I have the following scenario:
User chooses picture from list. Picture info is added into the db, including url.
However I can't figure out how exactly i should be storing the url for the image.

What data type should i use? How to insert it/extract it (with the backlashes/etc neeeded) ? Should I store the full http://www.somesite.com/imageurl.jpg or just somesite.com/imageurl.jpg ? (as little as possible)
How do i then display it?

Had a quick search here...no luck finding what i'm looking for..had a look on google but ended up just finding info on the BLOB data type..which would be inserting the actual image binary data into the database i believe.

Any help?

Thanks

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