Hi all,
I made my first database design. A screenshot can be found here:
https://i.imgsafe.org/7b/7b689c7679.png
The idea is to keep a list of approved posts. Every post has an author, a permlink, a reviewer and belongs to a category. A discoverer is optional. Reviewers can be enabled or disabled. Every post also has a list of keywords.
I want to achieve the following: I want to call the stored procedure or function with the following input parameters: author, permlink, discoverer, reviewer and category.
I got something to work but I'm not sure how to do the input parameter validation and how to 'report' when something is wrong. In a later stadium this stored procedure or function will be used from a php page.
I'm not sure if a stored procedure is the correct way to handle this.
If the category does not exist -> error
If the reviewer does not exist or is not enabled -> error
If the author does not exist -> add
If the discoverer does not exist -> add
If validation ok -> add
I was going to add to this post what I had this far but somehow I managed to delete my SP...
The issue I was having is that the SP continued when I detected an input was incorrect.
Any guidance is appreciated.
