如何允许我的用户在PHP中自定义他们的仪表板

Question

I'm confused on a basic concept. I'm working on a LAMP project where vendors submit products to companies for review. Each company has their own dedicated form that the vendors can access from their dashboard to submit products for review to the companies. Then the companies have their dashboard where they can review these products.

My question is how do I program for the companies to have the ability to switch the questions they want to ask of the vendors? So upon setting up their account I create a form for the companies that include ten questions of their choosing. Obviously there is a way with PHP for the companies to access these ten questions from their dashboard and to swap these questions out for others that will then populate on their forms that show up on the vendors dashboard. Since it affects my database code and my form code I'm confused on how to handle this and I haven't been able to come up with the right search terms for here or google that will show me resources on how to do this. What is the basic concept here? Am I writing code to literally overwrite the php source code for the companies forms page? Or is the database somehow involved with a global list of questions that are chosen? I am sure this is a basic function of php but I have never dealt with it so a "Mr. Potato Head" explanation and a link to a resource from the community would be real helpful.

EDITED: I may have been asking this question wrong above. This is far more a php question than a MySQL question. I don't understand the concept of customized forms. If a company chooses to swap out one of their questions and I give them a page where they can adjust their questions, what happens after they hit submit and have selected a new set of questions? Do I set the PHP up to completely overwrite the source code of their form page? That doesn't seem right so I am looking for examples of customized forms....

Answer 1

How about you have a table of Questions with lots of possible questions Then you have a table of Company_Questions which is just a subset of those questions, chosen by the company. You may then add a question to Questions or just create/swap an entry in Company_Questions to the selected Question.

I think you should look at some Data(base) Design books first, because you may be missing some key concepts.

Answer 2

If you have something like this in your database schema:

users(id, name, other params); questions(id, question);

You need to do a 1:N relationship to save for all customers the questions their want.

user_que(id_user,id_question, order);

Note: the param 'order' is just to specify the order the client want the question, and to clarify you can add more columns if you want to that table.

Well with that you can do the job. Now some SQL

Get the questions from a client SELECT q.question FROM questions q, user_que uq WHERE uq.id_user = $client_id

Get the clients who have one question SELECT c.name FROM users c, user_que uq WHERE uq.id_question = $id_question

Hope it helps you.