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I have a join table between Category and other entities that can be categorized in this way, but I dont think I need one between User and Category? Different users can't share the same category so it's a 1-n relationship, not n-n.
Even if I did though I still have the same issue since I have to figure out how to autoincrement it, only now in the join table rather than the Category table.
if cats are unique to a person, you would just use your auto-created id for the category table. sounds like you need to separate your internal IDs from your external (human readable IDs)...
if you need something human-readable, you would concat an additional field in the category table with a 'category display id' or somethin