Question

I’m making a website where there are thousands of <select></select> inputs. their <option></option> can be changed dinamicaly by an administrator at any time. I’m actually storing each select input’s options on separate tables, associating an Id and a value but this is heavy and not really great because i have ~= 100 tables and i need ~= 100 queries to display all the inputs on one page.

Is there any better storage solution ?

Current table exemple :

Table : selectanimaltype

ID     NAME
1       pig
2       cow
3       sheep
4       fox
...     ...

And i have a thousands of table like this one

Answer 1

Why do you make table for every new select? Add third field select_name and select options by this field.