PHP/MySQL: Check if something 'belongs-to' something else?
- by Nebs
I have two tables: Stores and Items. The relationship is: Stores 1---* Items
In PHP/MySQL what would be the best (fastest/simplest) way to check if a particular item belongs to a particular store.
In other words given for example:
$store_id = 1;
$item_id = 12;
I want to check if item 12 belongs to store 1 (and not some other store).
I usually do a select on Items matching both the store_id and item_id and limit the results to 1. Then check how many rows (0 or 1) were returned with mysql_num_rows. Is there a better way?
Update:
Both tables have an "id" column. The Items table has a "store_id" column.
