School database design I am trying to design a database management system with my PHP and intermediate MySQL knowledge, keeping normalization in mind.

These are the assumptions:


The school has many students from grade 1 to grade 6.
Each grade is divided into classes (e.g. we have grade 1 A, grade 1 B, grade 1 C) due to the class size.
Grade 1 to grade 3 offer the same subjects, but from grade 4 to grade 6 users can select which courses to offer.
Many teachers teach ONLY one subject BUT can teach MORE THAN one grade.


As an intermediate programmer, it all got twisted.
I was able to create the following tables and columns

students{(id),(name),(name),(parent_id)} -student details

parents{(id),(name),(email),(phone),(address)} - parent details

teachers{(id),(name),(email),(subject_id)} - teachers details

subjects{(id),(name),(description)} - subject details

attendance{(date),(status),(student_id)} - attendance of student with id of student_id,
                                           status in boolean TRUE = present, FALSE=absent


This is how far I have gone. 

Now I want to show a table where a student can be linked to all the subjects he/she is taking and a teacher linked to all the grades (no need to specify classes) he is teaching. How can I do that?

I will appreciate it if I can be pointed in the right direction.
Homework questions like this will generally not elicit answers with code. Stack Exchange is not a place where you can come to get others to do your homework for you. However you have only asked for pointers of where to look, so to that end, I will inform you that what you are looking for is called a many-to-many relationship, and requires a third table that maps table 1 to table 2. Usually, this third table just has two columns, each containing the primary key of one of the main tables, and the primary key of this table covers both columns.

Read up:


http://en.tekstenuitleg.net/articles/software/database-design-tutorial/many-to-many.html
http://www.tomjewett.com/dbdesign/dbdesign.php?page=manymany.php