relating record to picture

[newflashboi]

i have an interface where people can sign up and provide details, for an online
ystsem for people to meet others, its a prototype for my dissertation. i need
to have pictures of people along with their information, initially i tried
doing this with msaccess by creating a field called picture and stroing i as an
OLE object but didn't know how to do it. if i have a folder called pics on my
server how can i have it so that people can upload pics to this folder when
they sign up or edit their records and have it saved into the folder, under
their unique ID, and when users search for other users, the picture comes up
dependent on what user is shown i.e. the user id shown on the detailed page of
the master detail page. how would i get a record to relate to a picture in a
file or when it loads up for the image file to load up depending on what record
is being shown...

i hope all that makes sense please help.

[Paul Whitham TMM]

Depending upon which server language you are using you may need a
component to handle the upload of the image.

The simplest way to handle the actual linking is to insists that the
person give they image a name that matches their unique ID such a 4.jpg.
Then you could code a page with a dynamic call on the id and not have to
track individual image names.



Regards

Paul Whitham
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newflashboi wrote:

> i have an interface where people can sign up and provide details, for an online
> ystsem for people to meet others, its a prototype for my dissertation. i need
> to have pictures of people along with their information, initially i tried
> doing this with msaccess by creating a field called picture and stroing i as an
> OLE object but didn't know how to do it. if i have a folder called pics on my
> server how can i have it so that people can upload pics to this folder when
> they sign up or edit their records and have it saved into the folder, under
> their unique ID, and when users search for other users, the picture comes up
> dependent on what user is shown i.e. the user id shown on the detailed page of
> the master detail page. how would i get a record to relate to a picture in a
> file or when it loads up for the image file to load up depending on what record
> is being shown...
>
> i hope all that makes sense please help.
>