You have to create a table:
CREATE TABLE product_categ (
FK_productID <definition>,
FK_categID <definition>
)
and list all relationships "productID belongs to categID"

Ignatius
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From: "Doug Coning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 7:51 PM
Subject: [PHP-DB] Structure Question...


> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to know how you would set up the following:
>
> I've set up a MySQL database with 600 products.  I set it up where each
> product belongs to a category.  However, now we want to take it further
> where different products can now belong to more than 1 category.
>
> How would you create this?
>
> 1. Would you duplicate the records for items that belong to more than 1
> category and change the categories in those duplicated records?
>
> 2. Would you enter multiple categories into 1 column?
>
> 3. Would you create a different database that tracks categories and creat
a
> many to many relationship?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Coning
>
>
>
>
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