Hi,

I'm new to php and I have a few questions. Here is what I'm trying to do.

On the left of the page there will be a categories link. the categories are 
filled from the 
categories table. The categories id will link to the categories field in the 
stockItems table. 
In the stockItems table, the categories field is filled with the ID number that 
links to the 
categories table.

I want costumers to click on the left part of the web-page on the category that 
they want 
to go to. Then I want the page to fill the products area with the stockItems 
from that 
category.

The web-page does load all the stockItems from the database. I want the 
categories to 
narrow the stockitems listed.

This is key as I want there to be a starting page that uses this same kind of 
link. The client 
will rate some items as special, in the database, and they will load into the 
home page.

I hope that I made sense. It does to me but I don't know if I made myself clear.

Okay here is a quick question about databases. What is a foreign key in mySql? 
I think I 
may need one but I am unsure. Could you explain what it does?

Also I heard that you need to put the database connection info in a different 
sheet and call 
to it for security. is this true? If so how do you do this?








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