tabel structure for saved and removed articles - php

Question

I'm making a web app where users are posting their articles and other users can read them.
I wanna have a function in there where users can either save the articles that they like og remove those they don't wanna see anymore.
How should i set up my mysql tabels for that?
i'm thinking to have these tabels.
TABELS:
- articles
- users
- liked
- removed
I hope it makes sense?

Answer 1

You could probably build something similar to this:
Here is the SQL script to generate these tables:
-- tables
-- Table ArticleTypes
CREATE TABLE ArticleTypes (
ArticleTypeId int NOT NULL ,
ArticleTypeDesc varchar(255) NOT NULL ,
CONSTRAINT ArticleTypes_pk PRIMARY KEY (ArticleTypeId)
);
-- Table Articles
CREATE TABLE Articles (
ArticleId int NOT NULL ,
ArticleName varchar(255) NOT NULL ,
ArticleDescription varchar(255) NOT NULL ,
ArticleTypeId int NOT NULL ,
CONSTRAINT Articles_pk PRIMARY KEY (ArticleId)
);
-- Table BookmarkStatus
CREATE TABLE BookmarkStatus (
BookmarkStatusId int NOT NULL ,
BookmarkStatusDesc varchar(255) NOT NULL ,
CONSTRAINT BookmarkStatus_pk PRIMARY KEY (BookmarkStatusId)
);
-- Table Bookmarks
CREATE TABLE Bookmarks (
BookmarkId int NOT NULL ,
UserId int NOT NULL ,
ArticleId int NOT NULL ,
BookmarkStatusId int NOT NULL ,
CONSTRAINT Bookmarks_pk PRIMARY KEY (BookmarkId)
);
-- Table Users
CREATE TABLE Users (
UserId int NOT NULL ,
UserName varchar(255) NOT NULL ,
UserStatus int NOT NULL ,
CONSTRAINT Users_pk PRIMARY KEY (UserId)
);
-- foreign keys
-- Reference: Articles_ArticleTypes (table: Articles)
ALTER TABLE Articles
ADD CONSTRAINT Articles_ArticleTypes
FOREIGN KEY Articles_ArticleTypes (ArticleTypeId)
REFERENCES ArticleTypes (ArticleTypeId);
-- Reference: Bookmarks_Articles (table: Bookmarks)
ALTER TABLE Bookmarks
ADD CONSTRAINT Bookmarks_Articles
FOREIGN KEY Bookmarks_Articles (ArticleId)
REFERENCES Articles (ArticleId);
-- Reference: Bookmarks_BookmarkStatus (table: Bookmarks)
ALTER TABLE Bookmarks
ADD CONSTRAINT Bookmarks_BookmarkStatus
FOREIGN KEY Bookmarks_BookmarkStatus (BookmarkStatusId)
REFERENCES BookmarkStatus (BookmarkStatusId);
-- Reference: Bookmarks_Users (table: Bookmarks)
ALTER TABLE Bookmarks
ADD CONSTRAINT Bookmarks_Users
FOREIGN KEY Bookmarks_Users (UserId)
REFERENCES Users (UserId);
Basically, you can design your Bookmarks table to determine if the article is Active or Deleted based on the BookMarkStatusId (for e.g. 1 for Active, 2 for Deleted). Your bookmarks table will handle the relationship between users and articles tables.
Hope this helps!