Question

Is it possible to store more than one value and query the database and assign each value as a separate entity?

For example, I have a database with a column wallpaper can I store say this into it.

wall_1.png, wall_2.png, wall_3.png

and then query the database and pull out 3 different variables that hold the wallpaper name.

so I’d have $defaultWall = "wall_1.png" $wall2 = "wall_2.png" $wall3 = "wall_3.png" <– being pulled from the database.

also I have a table called settings, the user can set all their settings here. One column is for their wallpaper preference for their profile. I would like for them to have a series of uploaded wallpapers on hand if they choose to change later on. So by doing this I wanted to store an array of wallpaper urls into the db and have a tiny image preview gallery pull each wallpaper for processing and resizing from the database.

Answer 1

Yes, you can. But more than one value in table field doesn’t satisfy to the Normalization Forms.

Try to create one table with wallpapers for this row.