Dean, you did not even read it in the right angle.. lol
the system actually store the pictures in the database, he wants them to be stored in the filesystem instead...
as it is not related to vBulletin, can you provide the url to the script so we can see what's going on with your script !?
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http://ca3.php.net/manual/fr/functio...t-contents.php ... this can be a lead to somewhere!