michellem writes:
When a field is a checkbox, the data is saved to the database in the form of a comma delimited list.

I know that this is not what you are asking for...

If I understand you correctly, you are planning to stuff a list of values into a single column.

This may not be a good idea. The first three normal forms are probably more important to datbase programming than use strict and use warnings are to perl programming.

You are (apparently) violating the First Normal Form. Whole books have been written on the subject and there are many, mnay good reasons to normalize. One of them is that normalized data is a lot easier to deal with. SQL is to Perl, as Perl is to C in terms of the ratio of lines of code to results.

Sorry, for lack of more specific examples. Hope this helps



email: mandog

In reply to First Normal Form (was Re: CGI Checkboxes) by mandog
in thread CGI Checkboxes by michellem

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