How would I make a photogallery?

[Comn8u]

Would I store the links of pictures in the database or the actual image?

How would I be able to display 25 pictures per page? Would I use a repeater or dataset?

[Fishcake]

There's really no right or wrong answer to questions like these, it's a matter of preference.

You'll just have to consider the alternatives and see which works best for you.

Eg. Whilst storing just links in a db and having the images in a driectory might be easier to code, storing the images directly in the db would probably be easier to maintain the db.

[mendhak]

I always suggest storing the URL to the image instead of the whole file itself.

[Comn8u]

How would I go about displaying the pictures once they are in the database. I would like to put 25 pictures per page and use paging for the other pages. Would it be possible to store links in the database and then display them in a dataset and then add the <a> tag to each picture?

[mendhak]

Originally posted by Comn8u
Would it be possible to store links in the database and then display them in a dataset and then add the <a> tag to each picture?

Yes. They'll be values inside some field in the dataset.

Then you can place the URL (probably with a little modification) inside an <a> tag, InnerHTML probably.

[mendhak]

And to DISPLAY the image, you can use the <img> tag (runat server) and place the value there.