Can I display hotlinked images in a database? [closed]

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I was wondering if it's possible to display an image from a site like imageshack on my website using a data base, for example, I use the URL some where in the database, and when I display that data, the picture is displayed as well.

Is it possible to do this and if so, how should I go about doing it?

Answer 1

The other commenters here are correct. Simply store the tags with the correct link in your database as text.

You can store it, you can't, however, display it in your database as the database only holds data. This would require another language such as Java, Python, PHP or any language with a database accessor class.