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    <p>I'll try and elaborate on my problem a bit more.</p> <p>I recently got an entry-level part time developer position with my university, in efforts to sharpen my dev skills. While I have used MySQL in the past, it was only briefly covered in a single course, as I am mostly a front end guy (HTML/CSS/JS).</p> <p>Anyways, the department that hired me has a website designed for incoming students, to get them acclimated to college. It has tutorials and videos for them to watch, etc. In order to access the site, they must log in to their university account (which uses LDAP). Account names are in the format of abc1234. </p> <p>Now, my problem is I need to create a way for the staff to track which tutorials/videos the freshman have watched. They would like me to do this using databases. There will potentially be thousands of students, and they want to be able to see exactly which students have / have not clicked each link/watched each video.</p> <p>How should I set up databases for this? There will be multiple links/tutorials/videos that they want to track. Bonus points if there was a way of tracking which users watched the videos through to the end, however not required.</p> <p>I believe I will need to use PHP for handling the exchange between the browser and the database, correct?</p> <p>Thank you for any helps or tips. :)</p>
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    1. CODo you understand the relationships between a primary key and a foreign key? If not you need to start with a relational database tutorial - http://www.phpknowhow.com/mysql/mysql-basics/ - But in short, you're going to end up with a table filled with students and a table filled with videos. You will then have a third table that creates a relationship between students and videos commonly called a mapping table by linking the primary key of one to the primary key of another along with probably a date field and a bit field if it was completed.
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    2. COThis is way over a "front end designers" head. We have a team a 3 people and allocate about 4-6weeks to get a full tracking system like this wokring ( we track emails and what links were clicked from which email at what time and even where they went afterwards) You need to start with a generic handler to serve links from the DB, that somehow know which student it was and save it to another table. You need several tables and sql calls.
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    3. CO@RThomas: are that many tables necessary? I thought I could do this with a single table; *have and auto-incrementing ID, *the userID (from LDAP, they are all structured like abc1234) *six columns to represent the video links then whenever the user clicks a link, check to see if their ID is already in the table. If it is not, append it. Also append the current date and time to the link they clicked. Are primary/foreign keys necessary here?
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