Displaying Images from a MySQL Database using PHP 

I know, I'm sorry. My fonts are larger in more recent videos! Maybe I'll get around to fixing the old ones one day.

Sorry! I do increase my font size in more recent videos.

Yep! You can resize is using CSS or the WIDTH attribute. Or you can resize the image using something like WideImage (wideimage.sourceforge.net/).

The images references are in the database. But the actual images are in the filesystem. The URLs generated using the database references still needs to reference the actual location of the images. So if the images are in an "images" folder and the file name is in the database (field.jpg) we need to combine those to to get a working image in your HTML.

@@codeadamca So what's the point of all of this? I don't get it sorry. Why not just use the HTML way to display the images if those aren't stocked directly on the server?

@@lionelfloriani8874 This is just an intro to using images and a database. But eventually you could create an application where someone logs in, uploads their image (like Instagram, Facebook, etc...), PHP saves the image in a folder, places the reference in the database, and next time the page loads, it includes the new image. So the page content was updated without anyone touching any code.

@@codeadamca Oh ok! Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude or anything, I just didn't understand :p I am currently on my path to be WebDeveloper, there is so much stuff to know/understand sometimes I get lost. Thanks for answering and for your videos :)

You could, you would just need to create a PNG image with that Santa hat, that lines up when placed on top. The term you want to Google is "watermark". I use a small PHP library called WideImage for simple image manipulation with PHP. WideImage as a few tools to add watermarks. wideimage.sourceforge.net/

If you're testing your files by uploading them to your server, make sure you upload the files too! If that doesn't help, I would need to see your code to help.

I know. More recent videos the text is larger. Sory!

I did not do the second version in this video, but I did in the Creating a PHP CMS videos, you could check those out if you're still looking.

@@codeadamca thank you, I've already figured it out. Thank you for your contribution 🙂

Sorry it didn't help!