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Hello, If I want to allow users to upload photos and videos and there might be a lot of them - and then I want to display thumbnails of them - should I create a thumbnail for each uploaded image/video in a separate folder, or create the thumbnails while loading the images?
The second options doesn't make sense to me if there are many thumbnails so just wanted to make sure
I was thinking about this structure: To have the user uploaded media folder, and inside that folder have another thumbnails folder and store them there
First only allow a few at a time to be uploaded, for example 4. You can always have a dialog asking if they want to upload another batch. And I would probably go ahead and create the thumbnails when uploaded, much easier to keep track of things. Just my opinion.
@jlrdw And then have 2 tables - photos and thumbnails and have column in photos with the path/name of the thumbnail the correspond to the photo, with perhaps "belongs to" relationship on the thumbnail and "hasOne" for the photo, or - add a 3rd table that's linking between the photo_id and thumbnail_id?
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