Dan,
Quoting Dan Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
You couldn't specify the review_id in the products table... that would only
allow you to add 1 review per product (but many products could have the same
review... relationship is backwards)
Perfectly correct. I left the creation of the actual products table as an
exercise for the reader. Apologies if this wasn't clear. The
(simplified!) data diagram should look like this:
Tablename: Products link_product_review review
product_id ---> product_id
product_name review_id --------------> review_id
Drop the review_id from products and put products_id in the review table...
this way one product can have many reviews :)
See above! :)
Also, good idea with regard to using Zen Cart, it work's really well and
appears to be infinately customisable!
Cheers,
Matt
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From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 March 2006 13:18
To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com
Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Potential website
Quoting Portman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi all,
I am considering working on a website for someone. This person wants
a button next to each product where people can read and/or post
reviews about the product. How would that be done? A bulletin
board/message board type thing or is that not professional enough? I
did look into software for my boss to put a message forum on her
website - we ended up not doing it - but that is what I am thinking
would work. Any opinions/feedback would be appreciated.
I'm assuming this is database-driven?
If so, why not add two tables to your database:
TABLE 1:
link_product_review
review_id int(10) Stores the review Id
product_id int(10) Stores the product Id
TABLE 2:
product_reviews
review_id int(10) The review Id (probably auto-increment!)
review_user_id int(10) Only needed if you want users to log in
(requires a table for users)
review_text longtext the text of the review
review_rating int(2) gives the option to add a star rating etc to the
product.
the SQL would look something like:
CREATE TABLE link_product_review (
review_id int(10) NOT NULL,
product_id int(10) NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE product_reviews(
review_id int(10) auto_increment NOT NULL Primary Key,
review_user_id int(10) NOT NULL,
review_text longtext NOT NULL,
review_rating int(2) NOT NULL
);
You'd need to write the code to link everything together and insert the
right values into each field and then retrieve the data again, but this
would probably give you a good start! :)
Hope this helps,
Matt
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