Best DB (MySQL) structure: Articles which contain favored tags

Question

I\'ve built a news site: - The articles are shown on the front page ordered by date. The newest one first. - The news are in the table \"news\" with the fields \"id\", \"t

Answer 1

The following is by no means exhaustive/definitive, but it should get you going in the right direction.

Tables:

news
=====
id
title
text

tag
===
id
tag

tag_map
=======
tag_id
news_id

favorite_tags
=============
user_id
tag_id

Query

SELECT * 
FROM favorite_tags
JOIN tag_map ON favorite_tags.tag_id = tag_map.tag_id
JOIN news ON tag_map.news_id = news.id
WHERE favorite_tags.user_id = $userid