[nycphp-talk] getting my head around heirarchical structures
Tim Gales
tgales at tgaconnect.com
Sat Oct 29 11:00:49 EDT 2005
On 10/28/2005 04:30 PM Allen Shaw writes:
> All this heirarchical structure talk happens to come up as I'm trying to
> implement a data filtering scheme for an ad-hoc querying interface.
> Basically I want to allow queries as complex as the user wants -- not
> just on one or two fields at a time -- so this has to be open-ended, and
> it seems to be pointing me to a heirarchical structure. I think I've
> found something that will work, but I wonder a) if I'm just
> reinventing the wheel somehow,
It looks to me as if you are trying to implement views.
Is going to MySQL 5 (or a DBMS that supports views)
an option?
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