Question

I need a small help in making a mysql database structure

I am making a site where I ll be having users and cartoon characters as two major entities

A user can like as many cartoon character, and a cartoon character can be liked by n number of users.

My doubt is, in the users table there will be a field named as Cartoon, this will hold a single cartoon character ID, but if the user likes many characters then how do I store it?

This is my first database structure, so please help me

Answer 1

The most common approach is to use separate relation table, i.e.

create table users_cartoons (user_id int, cartoon_id int)

and store all the relations between users and cartoons there.