Multiple Options Help

[kpowning]

I have a subscription website that basically offers 4 different packages. In each package the members can choose from a variety of option in which will change the price of their subscription.

Like paypal, my merchant account will only accept lets say a packageid that has to reflect that exact package with the options they have picked. What is the best way to build all of these different package id's since I have figured there will be about 900 different packages then to reflect all these different options. Do I have to insert on at a time into a mysql table or anyone have any suggestions?

Here is a sample package to show you what one comes with at the base:

Package Example: Test package
3 - images
1- categorie
not featured

Options:

Up to 9 images
up to 2 categories
Featured: yes / no
Video in advert: yes/no

So for all these different options will have a different package id right?

Thanks In Advance 🙂

[NogDog]

I may be missing something, but it does not seem to me that you need to enter every permutation into the database. Perhaps you could construct an ID string that you can parse into its components, then check that each component is a valid option. The actual format could be fixed-length or it could be delimited. For instance for the example of 3 images, 1 category, and not featured, a fixed-length ID could be 003010, while a delimited ID might be 310.

You could then parse the fixed-length ID via substr(), or the delimited ID via explode().