[Fwd: RE: RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] Re: phpGroupware database and u ml d ocumentation in wiki?]

[Darryl VanDorp]

What your basically saying (if i read correctly)  is one table with two
columns (plus a unique key of some-sort) for each relationship you want
to manage?
-Darryl

> Kind of - you have a table with two columns for cross referencing, and
> possibly tables for update date if syncing is required.  This allows
> you to use foreign keys, and additionally control 1-to-n or n-to-n via
> the primary key.
>
> One class can be written that abstracts the structure of this table
> (assuming they're all the same structure), and defines the columns and
> tables in the derived implementation.
>
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 09:51, Darryl VanDorp wrote:
>> Could you expand a little on what you mean by this?
>>
>> You mean like todo-links, contact-links, etc. one table per
>> association and a class that manages the linkages?
>>
>> -Darryl