I have groups on my website, and would like users to follow groups, and groups to follow users. I was wondering how does the following/follower works, in terms setting out in a MySQL table and referencing users? I’m very confused!!
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I have groups on my website, and would like users to follow groups, and groups to follow users. I was wondering how does the following/follower works, in terms setting out in a MySQL table and referencing users? I’m very confused!!
The simplest way I can think of to do this is with two tables. One table is just a list of users, each with a unique
userIdand any other information you need to store about the user. The second table would keep track of who is following who by simply associating users by theiruserId. It could be just two columns,leaderIdandfollowerId, where both columns are foreign keys to theuserIdin the main table.You can then get a list of a user’s followers by selecting all the rows where they are the leader.