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Image gallery system - which approach is better?

I am implementing an image loading system in PHP, the following is required:

  • Enter categories
  • Allow users to comment on images
  • Allow image rating

For this, I have 2 approaches:

1. Implement folder categorization

Each category will have its own folder, and PHP will define categories through these folders.

Pros

  • Structured appearance, easily placed images.
  • Using PHP's built-in functions to manage and collect information about folders and files

Against

  • Multiple categorization is pain.
  • You must save the full path in the database

2. Introduce database categorization

Each image in the database will have a catID (or several catIDs), and PHP will query the database to get the images

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