Admin panel - few questions about directories, upload, search engine, bootstrap

another approach might be to stick all images physically into the same place BUT have a field on a form , say a drop down category [ "accessories", "mens", "ladies" in reference to the image.

in my db i store the names of the images literally as "kursaal2.jpg" etc . If i ALSO had a field giving a category to the images, then you can use that info in a query to pull the images that you want using a specific category.

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