Question

I have a form with 80 checkboxes.. Its a options form for car.. For example

Colour: black , red , white , yellow etc.. How should i design my database for many options?

should i create 80 column in table? or use implode() and save in a one column or multiple rows? but when i need i should update it…

Car_id |  black | red | white | yellow  |..... | option80 |
1            true     true     

how should i do ? Thank you for your help

Answer 1

Check out normalization. That might help.

Anyway, to help you get on your way, here’s a basic setup for that.

+-----TABLE CAR------+
ID
NAME

+-----TABLE COLOR------+
ID
COLOR

+-----TABLE CAR_COLOR------+
CAR_ID
COLOR_ID

This makes sure you have a link table between CAR and COLOR

Hope this was helpful