Question

I crawled a web, for example I crawled to get the authors ($author) and the link of authors. For one id, sometime, there are 2 authors, and when I save them in database, they will be separated in different id,

for example : I get $author and $link = string(14) "Aaron M. Cohen" string(73) "http://example.com/Author/4279758" string(16) "William R. Hersh" string(68) "http://example.com/Author/299122"

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|id|web|      author    |            author_link          |
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|1 | A |Aaron M. Cohen  |http://example.com/Author/4279758|
|2 | A |William R. Hersh|http://example.com/Author/299122 |
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Is it possible to save them in one same id? How? thank you in advance 🙂
fyi, I wanna save them in one id, because of the next process is I want to inner join the table with other table that have same web. If there are two id in same web, they will be printed twice.

Answer 1

No. Create another table that actually contains the author and a fkey to the id in order to keep the database in first normal form.