Lesson 17 - E-shop in PHP - Designing the person database
In the previous tutorial, E-shop in PHP - Finishing the product administration, we finished the product administration by implementing product images. For the next features, we're going to need database tables for storing persons. In today's tutorial, we're going to design it.
Persons
Our e-shop will, obviously, work with people because we need to store addresses to ship to, and we'll need them for bookkeeping as well. However, before we start working on database tables, we'll have to think about its design for a bit.
A person (or entity if you will) can be either legal (a company), or physical (a customer or entrepreneur). To keep tables normalized, we'll store addresses and bank accounts in separate tables. We'll need these as well since a person can have two different addresses (billing and shipping).
We'll also have to consider the fact that a person's details may change from time to time, but the old invoices must remain unchanged. That's why the "person" table will
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In this tutorial, we'll design the database structure that stores people. The main goal is to keep historical data without creating redundant entries.
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