Does the API have built in methods for inserting into and displaying images from BLOBs (a look at the cheatsheet seems to indicate no)?.

Is there a BLOB fieldtype (sorry, haven't installed PW yet, but the fieldtypes page seems to indicate BLOB is not available 'out of the box')? I can't seem to find it the additional fieldtype modules either.

Is it relatively easy for ProccessWire to deal with images stored in the DB?.

I know some developers don't like doing this, but we have a number of business reasons for doing so, not the least of which is ease of synchronizing data between the enterprise DB (full of even more images) and the web DB.Ĭompared with other CMSes, ProcessWire seems to have a very elegant way of dealing with images, but the default way is for the images to be stored in the filesystem in a subdirectory of the page where the images are used. The images are stored in the database as BLOBs ( not as files in the filesystem with the filename and path stored in the DB). It is based on a homegrown CMS which uses a PHPMaker generated CRUD system on the backend to manage data within a relatively complex enterprise datamodel, the majority of which is not yet (and may never be) exposed on the web. I developed a website which has a ton of images.

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