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[nycphp-talk] table structure for "friend" relationships

Glenn Powell glenn310b at mac.com
Thu Jul 30 17:26:54 EDT 2009


Thanks for clarifying.

glenn


On Jul 30, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Allen Shaw wrote:

> Glenn Powell wrote:
>> ... if 100 considers 300 a friend, that does not mean that 300  
>> considers 100 a friend.
>>
>> It could be maddening for a user to see that they are a friend of  
>> 300, when in fact they have not done anything in the system
>> to create that relationship.
> Hi Glenn,
>
> For a social networking app, I think you'd be right about that. What  
> I have here is more of a CRM application. The user manages his own  
> contacts and can record relationships between them for his own  
> information, so reciprocation is not an issue, whereas it would be  
> in a social networking app like friendster or facebook. In this app,  
> the design spec indicates that if a user records that 100 and 300  
> are friends (or spouses, or co-workers, etc.), then the system  
> should be able to find 100 connected to 300 and vice-verse.
>
> - A.
>
> -- 
> Allen Shaw
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