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I am developing an URL bookmark application (PHP and MySQL) for myself. With this application I will store URLs in MySQL.
The question is, should I store URLs in a TEXT column or should I first parse the URL and store its components (host, path, query, fragment) in separate columns in one table? The latter one also gives me the chance of generating statistical data by grouping servers and etc. Or maybe I should store servers in a separate table and use JOIN. What do you think?
Thanks.
I’d go with storing them in TEXT columns to start. As your application grows, you can build up the parsing and analysis functionality if you really want to. From what it sounds like, it’s all just pie-in-the-sky functionality right now. Do what you need to get the basic application up and running first so that you have something to work with. You can always refactor and go from there.