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redbrad0
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Posted - 05 November 2003 :  18:58:53  Show Profile  Visit redbrad0's Homepage  Send redbrad0 an AOL message
I am creating a new database for some products but trying to figure out the best way to layout the database. This is a very small shopping cart. The end result should produce something sorta like the following taking from another website

http://www.shabangexpress.com/sample.htm

So for the database layout I have currently


Category
	Cat_ID
	Cat_Name
	Cat_Desc
	Cat_Active
	
Products
	Prod_ID
	Prod_CatID
	Prod_Name
	Prod_Desc
	Prod_SmPic
	Prod_LgPic
	Prod_ListPrice
	Prod_SalePrice
	Prod_Active


Showhow I need to set different variables for each product which I was thinking something like

ProdItems
	Item_ID
	Item_ProdID
	Item_Name
	Item_Desc
	
ProdItemsDetail
	Detail_ID
	Detail_ItemID
	Detail_Name


I dont think the above would be the best way, any ideas or suggestions?
Brad
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Nikkol
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Posted - 05 November 2003 :  19:01:32  Show Profile
give a concrete example ... what do you mean by item and then itemdetail?
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redbrad0
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Posted - 05 November 2003 :  19:05:35  Show Profile  Visit redbrad0's Homepage  Send redbrad0 an AOL message
The example is in the link in the post. Basically I was thinking I would have...

PRODUCTS Package 1(10ft)
ITEMS Select a Fabric Color...
ITEM DETAILS [i]drop down menu that has Apollo - 97157 listed as first one

I hope this helps a little more
Brad
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Nikkol
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Posted - 05 November 2003 :  19:21:09  Show Profile
Okay, I see. What you've detailed seems to be the best way to do it since a product can have multiple "items" (i would tend to call it something different since in your example it's not an item per se, more of a characteristic, but doesn't really matter since it's just the name of a table) ... anywho ... and each "item" can have more than one selection.

The only thing I could think would be that if you had several products that shared the same "items" and consequently "item details", then those two tables would be separate and you would have another that linked the products to the items. If that made any sense at all.
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redbrad0
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Posted - 05 November 2003 :  20:17:34  Show Profile  Visit redbrad0's Homepage  Send redbrad0 an AOL message
Yea that makes since, but some of the items (characteristics) are drop down menus, some are just text boxes with how many they want, and some how multiple drop down menus. So how would you think about handling that?
Brad
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Nikkol
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Posted - 05 November 2003 :  20:22:34  Show Profile
well, you could have a column in the item table that's called "itemtype" which could be for either "manual entry" or for "selection" .. if it's "selection", you'll know to look up what needs to fill the dropdown box by looking at the itemdetails table. if it's "manual entry" you know you need to display a text box.
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redbrad0
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Posted - 05 November 2003 :  20:28:34  Show Profile  Visit redbrad0's Homepage  Send redbrad0 an AOL message
Well let me try this out and see what happens. Thanks and will post if I need anymore ideas.
Brad
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redbrad0
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Posted - 13 November 2003 :  15:23:03  Show Profile  Visit redbrad0's Homepage  Send redbrad0 an AOL message
I have most of the layout done, but what would be the best way to grab the dynamically driven form fields. Everything under the Additions in the given link ( http://www.shabangexpress.com/products.asp?id=2 ) is dymanically made. As of right now I have the form name as the ID number of that item.
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