-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Flint Million wrote: > Good idea. OK so I'll create a new database with subject ID's. Now, back in > the primary database, how can I have multiple subjects assigned to one book? > Let's say I repeat my above example and we assign "Nonfiction" to 1, > "Technology" to 4, and "Linux" to 5. I know I might be getting off PHP topic > here, but what's the best way then to have the database be able to reference > multiple subjects per record? Or, would I have to do like "subject0 subject1 > subject2 etc." fields considering the maximum number of subjects per book? I > still want to be ao search by subject and any book that has that particualr > subject assigned to it would be returned. > Here's how Table: BOOKS BOOK_ID BOOK_NAME .... PK: BOOK_ID SUBJECTS SUBJECT_ID SUBJECT_NAME PK: SUBJECT_ID BOOK_SUBJECT BOOK_ID (references BOOKS) SUBJECT_ID (references SUBJECTS) PK: (BOOK_ID,SUBJECT_ID) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD0s5Hj60GAoLuoDkRAlu2AJ4wqmitcKOpSwxiosJIrxHRr4swEACfUy4N biTma4v6Kw5ZWps879Xa9Jg= =D0Nk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
