Question

My form structure is like this in which fields[] input can be added any number of times at time of submission of form.Here i am storing website link in fields[] .

<input id="name" name="name" type="text" />
<input id="field_1" name="fields[]" type="text" />
<input id="field_2" name="fields[]" type="text" />
<input id="field_3" name="fields[]" type="text" />

I have managed to store this data in a MySQL database using the table structure below to allow a user to be associated with an unlimited number of websites:

Users       User_website_link     Websites
------      -----------------     ---------
Pk:UserID   Pk:ID               Pk:WebsiteId
name        UserID              Url
            WebsiteID

Let say user fills following data in form {“Jon”, “example.com”, “example1.com”, “example2.com” }

So after submitting form table would be looking like this:

User table:

UserID   Username
1         Jon

Websites Table:

WebsiteID      Url
1               example.com
2               example1.com
3               example3.com

User_website_link Table:

ID   UserID    WebsiteId
1     1         1
2     1         2
3     1         3

How should I allow the user to edit their URLs after submitting them?

So my question is: a user called John wants to delete example3.com and edit example.com to demo.com, So I want to know how to delete some websites from the database and edit some.

Answer 1

You don’t need the user_website_link table – you can just put a UserID in another column in your websites table.

But to answer the question:

You do not need to edit entries, simply add another column that is something like boolean is_deleted and only display or use URLs that have the is_deleted as false. So you just let the user add an extra URL for editing, and just set the is_deleted when you delete them. Of course you could remove that row on deletion, or clear deleted ones later, but I think this method is slightly easier.