It's Christmas... the season of giving and tolerance :| On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 13:56 +1300, German Geek wrote: > This list seems to be turning into a MySQL list with a few PHP questions... > Tim-Hinnerk Heuer > > http://www.ihostnz.com > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:53 PM, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi guys. > > > > Architecting an app that's going to have users interacting with different > > levels of the db/tbls, and trying to figure out a few things. > > > > The highlevel layout looks like: > > collegeTBL > > deptTBL > > > > with ->collegeTBL.id = deptTBL.colID > > > > I also have a status tbl for each collegeTBL/deptTBL > > > > college_statusTBL > > userID > > collegeID > > > > dept_statusTBL > > userID > > deptID > > > > with: > > collegeTBL.id=college_statusTBL.collegeID > > deptTBL.id=dept_statusTBL.deptID > > > > So I limk the statusTBLs to the college/dept TBLs... > > > > This is due to the fact that a user can elect to work on either a college, > > or a given dept of the college. > > > > I'm struggling with a good/best way to figure out how to develop a query to > > determine what level of a college, (if any) a user has elected to work > > with. > > > > I can do a multiple join across the collegeTBL/deptTBL, and the statusTBLs, > > but this simply gets a large tbl, and I'd have to then parse the results... > > I'm trying to figure out if there's a better way, with a single query. The > > query would look at the college(status), and then at the dept(status) to > > determine what level (if any ) the user has selected. > > > > I've got a mysql layout of the various tbls, and inserts if anyone's > > interested in helping me shake my mind out on this... > > > > thanks > > > > -bruce > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
