Question

please help me on this one:)

Most of the time I am creating static pages like Contact Us, About Us, FAQs etc

If I want to store some dynamic items in the page, how will my table look like?

Let’s say for the FAQ page, I am to store the question and the answer on the database. For the contact page, I will store emails and and some other contact information. Does that mean I have to create a separate table for each?

Answer 1

Often times I’ve seen people create a table for Meta information. It resembles a key => value relationship, where the first field of a row is the name and the second is the value. So if you were to manage your global contact information in the database, you may have the following rows:

Meta-Data Table

Meta ID | MetaTitle      | Meta Value
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     01 | email_address   | [e-mail]
     02 | phone_number    | 1.234.567.8901
     03 | num_subscribers | 2312
     04 | page_styles     | background-color:#333333;color:#ffffff

As for your frequently asked questions, you could do that as a table, if you like:

Questions

Question ID | Question          | Answer
-------------------------------------------
         01 | How tall are you? | Not nearly tall enough.

Or you could simply create a generic ‘pages’ table:

Pages

Page ID | Page Title | Page Content
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     01 | FAQs       | How tall are you?
        |            | Not nearly tall enough.
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     02 | Contact Us | Phone: [phone]
        |            | Email: [e-mail]