Question

I have a social network that I am making using php and mysql. I am trying to figure out how to make followers for each user. Should I create a table in mysql with a list of followers for each person, and create a table for everybody they follow? How should this work? How should I set up my data structures? Please help.

Answer 1

Table `followers`

id
user_id
follows_id

If a user follows another, add their ids to this table where user_id is the user that follows and follows_id is the user he’s following.