Good morning everyone,
I have a checkbox form, where the user selects one or more options for each category. I need to save the selection made in a mysql database.
the database:
CATEGORY
id_category: INT PRIMARY AI
name: VARCHAR (30)
PRODUCT
id_product:Â INT PRIMARY AI
id_category INT
name: VARCHAR (30)
initially I thought of using the php implode function and saving only the indexes, separated by a dot, in the user table.
for example, if user select:
Meat (as category),
tbone and cicken (as product).
Fruit (as category),
pear, apple and cherry (as product).
i have something like: 1.3,1.15,9.5,9.18 (9 category . 18 product in this case)
at this point I would insert this string into the user table.
the moment I need to access the data, I would have to use the exoplode command twice.
one to divide the categories and one to divide the products.
with the result, I would make a query to the categories table and one to the products table.
Do you think this is a good way to approach this type of situation or is there a better way to save a series of checkboxes?
