Hi Dick,
Thanks for your advice. That's a very pretty site at stbtrucks.com
(excellent job on the graphics), but coding the back end in Perl must have
been a major challenge, I would think. You must have used text files to
store the data, instead of using a database, right? I'm trying to get a
handle on how to best design a relational database to handle any kind of
car part or accessory, have you got any suggestions about that? If you
could describe or even just list the columns in your data files (which for
Perl is really just a way to manage data in a pseudo-database, right?) that
might help a lot.
I'm thinking that Bud Schneehagen's suggestion of a flag field (or several)
in the Products table that indicates what other (out of who knows how many
there might ultimately be) tables to look in for supplementary data is
probably what I'll wind up having to do. But that seems like a slightly
kludgy way to do things, something tells me there has to be a better way...
Regards,
Karl S.
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