Best Practice for Uploading Many (2000+) Images to A Server
- by bob
Hello,
I have a general question about this.
When you have a gallery, sometimes people need to upload 1000's of images at once. Most likely, it would be done through a .zip file. What is the best way to go about uploading this sort of thing to a server. Many times, server have timeouts etc. that need to be accounted for. I am wondering what kinds of things should I be looking out for and what is the best way to handle a large amount of images being uploaded.
I'm guessing that you would allow a user to upload a zip file (assuming the timeout does not effect you), and this zip file is uploaded to a specific directory, lets assume in this case a directory is created for each user in the system. You would then unzip the directory on the server and scan the user's folder for any directories containing .jpg or .png or .gif files (etc.) and then import them into a table accordingly. I'm guessing labeled by folder name.
What kind of server side troubles could I run into?
I'm aware that there may be many issues. Even general ideas would be could so I can then research further. Thanks!
Also, I would be programming in Ruby on Rails but I think this question applies accross any language.
