I have a program where the user can enter multiple email addresses to get notification. I’m creating a field in the database to keep track of this and I’m not sure what would be the best data type to choose for all the email addresses. At this point I believe we will limit it to 4 email addresses.
What data type would be appropriate here for mysql?
Not sure this is relevant but I plan to serialize the data (with php function) When processing the email addresses. Interested in any feedback on my plans and if there is a better way to do this.
This indicates that you have 1:many relation of user:email addresses. Create another table with user_id and email columns and link it up to your users table via user_id.
Never serialize data and stick it in a column, you’ll regret it later.