multiple attribute database design

Question

I have a product that has many color variants and I need some help to design the database tables. It's the same product but not all models have the same color variants. One product has 3 color and other may have 6 colors.

Answer 1

Here is something to get you going. You can have price field in both, models and options then sum it in your script, that way you can have different price depending on model and color option.

UPDATE

Your query will be somoething like:

SELECT
p.name AS 'product',
m.name AS 'model',
m.description AS 'model_description',
o.name AS 'option'
FROM `products` AS p

LEFT JOIN `models` AS m
ON (p.ID = m.product_id)

LEFT JOIN `option_to_model` AS otm
ON (m.ID = otm.model_id)

LEFT JOIN `options` AS o
ON (otm.option_id = o.ID)

Here is a live example for you SQLFiddle