Question

I am doing a project for school, and I am new to php and mysql.

I have to create one loginpage with 3 different users like corres, principal and the staff

In the table field what type I have to give like ENUM or SET?
I want to assign 0 for corres,1 for principal and 3 for staff.

How to do this, and should I give any field in the login page in php?

But I am going to create only 2 tables one for corres and other one is for staff

correc table fields are

corrs_id,username,password,staff_id,staff_role

staff table fields are
staff_id,staff_role,name,qualification,address,state etc.

Both the tables have 2 common fields staff_id and staff_role.
Now how to connect 2 tables, and when username and password is given it should first check the staff_role like principal or a staff using staff_id from the corres table according to tht the page should open.

Please help me in this project.

Answer 1

Put all the fields in the same table and add another field like staff_role (Tree structure).
and based on the value returned from this field redirect to the particular page.

Say table has these data
employee_id emp_name password emp_role
and data like
3 Jack password staff
Algorithm

$emp_role= $record['emp_role'];

  if($emp_role == "principle")
 Header("location: principle.php");
else if($emp_role == "staff")
Header("location: staff.php");
else if($emp_role == "corres")
Header("location: corres.php");
else
Header("location:StaffRoleNotDefined.php");