Question

Evening,

I’ve no training in Databases, and I’m a bit lost.

Essentially I’ve this data:

Game
    name_of_game varchar(?);
    screen_shots ?
         screen_shot_1
         screen_shot_2
              ...
         screen_shot_n
/Game

What is the best way to store the screen_shot_n data?

Do I try to use a serialized array? Or do I need to try to make another table and store it there? BTW, there are 30k ‘Game’

I’m using PHP and MySQL if that’d help in anyway…

Answer 1

I would probably use a separate screen shots table.

Game Table

game_id integer
name varchar

Screenshots Table

screenshot_id integer
game_id integer
screenshot varchar <--- a file name (or a blob or however you are storing the screenshot)

And then you can find the game’s screenshots with:

SELECT * FROM screenshots WHERE game_id="123";