On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Anthony Wlodarski <ant92...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For example, we ask users to select their Ethnicity when filling out one of > our forms. This includes the values: Prefer not to say, African American, > Asian, White, East Indian, Hispanic / Latino, Middle Eastern, Native > American, Other. Where would you store these options? Where you store them is a matter of style. I like using blocks of JSON for this, personally, but others would cringe at the parsing overhead. But however you keep them, I think the ideal solution needs to accommodate two things: 1) Localization/internationalization - if you're just storing American English values, you're limiting yourself. The labels for an Ethnicity selector can even vary region by region within the US. You may need to keep the choices the same in order to normalize the database, but the labels need to be translatable. 2) Meta-data about the selector itself. Multiple choice? An Other... field? Is it ideally a <select> or a series of radio buttons / checkboxes? Is there an instruction that goes along with the field? A default value? _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
