How would you make a "draft" feature?

Let's say you let users publish articles and implement a feature to create a "draft" before publishing an article.

How would you make a relationship and database structure?

Cronix

9 years ago

Best Answer

Level 67

I'd just throw a status column on the article table. Then a simple Status model with a hasOne relationship in the Article model. Status table would just have 'draft', 'published', etc.

articles:
id
title
...
status_id

statuses:
id
type (published, draft, archived, etc)

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kenny11

9 years ago

Level 4

Yea. That is what I was thinking. Thanks for the comment. I wanted to see if something different comes up

jekinney

9 years ago

Level 47

I sometimes set a draft Boolean and/or if you have a published at date can set to null.

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