photos, inventory & databse in a website

[zalel]

A client of mine who is currently using a Filemaker databse is getting ready to make a new website. Their service is hospitality, I guess, since they work with caterers and wedding planners. In the new site, they want to use photos of all of their tablecloths and other table arrangements, so that the caterers and planners can order online. They plan to make digital photos of every example, and then use their databse to display all of these online. Will that be possible?

I want to tell them how to prepare their images files for this purpose. I haven't found any tech notes that address this task. I looked for Filemaker Solutions, but didn't see any.

What do I need to learn, and what do I need to tell the client?

[Ocean West]

depends are you doing IWP or conventional PHP custom web publishing?

If it is the latter you would prepare the images like you would do for any website. As these images reside in a directory on the web-server the database only references them.

For IWP you must store the images into the database but the performance may not be as you desired. You could store the images in the database for PHP as well but performance will not be as fast as if the images are on the webserver.