I'm still teaching myself laravel. I'm making an order form in laravel and i have a table full of products and i want to make it so that when make a new order and add the products. It would make its own order when i click new order it will make a new order number up and save it to the database?
Would the best way be to make an orders table with
Schema::create('westcoOrders', function (Blueprint $table){
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('orderNumber');
$table->json('content');
$table->tinyInteger('sent')->default(0);
$table->tinyInteger('delivered')->default(0);
$table->timestamps();
} );
or would it be better having a table multiple tables so i have one like the one above without the json entry and then have a westcoOrderItems table like this?
Schema::create('westcoOrderItems', function (Blueprint $table){
$table->string('orderNumber');
$table->string('quantity');
$table->string('productName');
$table->string('productCode');
$table->string('price');
$table->timestamps();
} );
}
So then i have link the order number to the other table. Or is that a long way to go around it? and if i do it that way i will have to find a way to make an order number when i hit the new order route?
I feel like I'm doing this the wrong/long way?