You can utilize 3 approaches to store extension data to the database.
- New tables can be created to support the data storage
- Existing tables can be altered to add new fields and indexes.
- Dataset tools are offered by AbanteCart to save data without creating or altering database.
As first two are straight forward, we will cover #3 in more details.
Dataset aproach offers quick and worry free method to handle data without dealing with SQL and creating specific database tables. Data can be handled via easy dataset class methods.
Good example for dataset usage will be ocasionaly edited information for products, categories, customers and orders data extension, polls, questioners, etc.