August 9, 2010
Storing settings inside DB
Question by dom
can someone tell me what’s the best way to store many different settings in a
database? Should I use one table with id,key,value?
Here is an example what i have to store:
PageNavigation.Font = "fontRegular";
PageNavigation.FontSize = 14;
PageNavigation.FontColor = 0x000000;
PageNavigation.SubFont = "fontRegular";
PageNavigation.SubFontSize = 12;
PageNavigation.SubFontColor = 0x000000;
PageNavigation.width = 200;
PageNavigation.height = 22;
PageNavigation.spacing = 5;
PageNavigation.LetterSpacing = 0;
PageNavigation.top = 250;
PageNavigation.rightMargin = 24;
PageNavigation.RollOverColor = 0xFF3300;
PageNavigation.ActiveColor = 0xCCCCCC;
PageNavigation.Icon = "/assets/images/arrow_default.png";
PageNavigation.IconLeft = 5;
PageNavigation.TextLeft = 5;
PageNavigation.SubIcon = "";
PageNavigation.SubIconLeft = 5;
PageNavigation.SubTextLeft = 22;
PageViewer.BackgroundColor = 0xe9edee;
PageViewer.ThumbSource = "";
PageViewer.maxVisible = 17;
PageViewer.ThumbWidth = 38;
PageViewer.ThumbHeight = 49;
PageViewer.ThumbActiveBorder = 2;
PageViewer.ThumbActiveBorderColor = 0xEE2233;
PageViewer.ThumbSpacing = 10;
PageViewer.ThumbLeft = 20;
PageViewer.ThumbBorderColor = 0xFF3300;
PageViewer.ThumbBorderSize = 1;
PageViewer.ThumbRollOverColor = 0xDDDDDD;
PageViewer.ThumbActiveColor = 0xCCCCCC;
PageViewer.ThumbSelectColor = 0xCCCCCC;
PageViewer.ThumbShadow = 1;
PageViewer.ThumbLayout = "Layout1";
PageViewer.ButtonLayout = "ButtonLayout1";
I’m new to database design and don’t know good resources to learn db-design
Cheers,
Dom
Answer by Starx
the best I think is to create a field for each type of setting. What does this do is,
- we can keep many user defined settings of many users in one table.
- we can create different sets of predefined setting which can be useful in several cases
ETC
