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June 30, 2013 at 5:13 pm #45984
chrisburton
ParticipantURL: http://chrisburton.me/recently
First, I’m trying to store the `url` and `title` into a database from my “Read” section. I’ve created a database, database user and set a table with the name `read` with 2 columns (one for url and the other for link). This is where I’m stuck. I’m not exactly sure what I should put inside some of the options shown below.
Or should my PHP be setting this information from the array?
Also, I hope I’m not exposing any sensitive information here. Please let me know if I am.
June 30, 2013 at 5:43 pm #141067chrisburton
ParticipantDamn it. I thought it would be easier to understand than all of what you just said.
June 30, 2013 at 5:57 pm #141070chrisburton
Participant@CrocoDillion I have many questions.
But first, in PHPMyAdmin under localhost->db-name, why is my database collation set at `latin1_swedish_ci`? I should probably change that, yes?
June 30, 2013 at 5:59 pm #141071Alen
Participantyou should have:
id – tinyint(8), primary index, auto increment
url – varchar(250)
title – varchar(250)
June 30, 2013 at 6:10 pm #141073Alen
ParticipantHow is this table related to other tables? do you have users creating url’s and title’s? you might want to add user_id as well so you can relate(join) two tables if you ever need to display more complex data. `user_id` would be the id in the users table for example.
June 30, 2013 at 6:27 pm #140926chrisburton
ParticipantI’m not sure why I should set an ID? What’s supposed to go there?
No, the only “user” would be me. I add what I read to my readability account and pull that data from the RSS feed.
I’m just trying to store that data in case I decide to do something with it later. Something like show what all I’ve read throughout the year. As for now, I’m just going to be outputting my latest article that I’ve read.
June 30, 2013 at 6:34 pm #140927Alen
ParticipantID is your table index, every table should have it.
This number keeps track how many different unique entries you have. It starts at 1 and with every entry it auto increments. In the example you have how would you display ascending or descending data? You would only be able to sort it by url or title.
June 30, 2013 at 6:52 pm #141075Alen
ParticipantIn your use case you would only have one user id = 1 and the table read would have all user_id fields with value 1. The id’s once you set them up they auto increment, so there’s no need to pass data to it. You would only pass user_id value of 1, then title and url.
June 30, 2013 at 7:02 pm #141076chrisburton
Participant@AlenAdbula What is confusing me is the way you were explaining it. The image helped a lot.
I won’t be needing a `user_id` since there will only be one user. Do I still need to set one for myself? Seems kind of unnecessary.
June 30, 2013 at 7:10 pm #141077Alen
ParticipantI would, so if you wanted to add extra info about the user down the road that data will be abstracted. Since you are the only user just pass 1 to user_id. or if you want to keep it real simple just add id (index, auto increment) to the read table.
So
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `read` (
`id` tinyint(8) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`title` varchar(250) NOT NULL,
`url` varchar(250) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;June 30, 2013 at 7:12 pm #141078pixelgrid
Participantyour table should have a primary auto incrementing integer id two varchar for url and title. just set a length for those and you shouldnt have any issues.
no need for user id if you are the only user
June 30, 2013 at 7:19 pm #141080chrisburton
ParticipantNow I’m confused again. Should I be using `latin1_swedish_ci` or `utf8_unicode_ci`?
June 30, 2013 at 7:26 pm #141081chrisburton
Participant@pixelgrid @AlenAbdula So my table should look something like this, correct?
June 30, 2013 at 7:31 pm #141083chrisburton
Participant@CrocoDillon Just read that! Thanks for the info.
I really appreciate all the information everyone has given me. Thanks for helping out and teaching me a few things.
June 30, 2013 at 7:34 pm #141085Alen
ParticipantYeah ignore that part I quickly generated it here on my machine. Go with whatever you need.
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