I'm thinking of implement a view history for my wordpress blog, where users can view their previously viewed articles as a list in their account page.
I would like to limit this to 24 unique page history per user at any point of time, meaning, if the number of articles exceeds 24, the oldest article row would be deleted, and the new article added to the table.
I'm using PHP and MySQL.
Here's my current thoughts on implementation:
Create a table with user_id and post_id columns
When user views an article, insert new row into the table
Select the rows with the current user_id, and if number of rows is more than 24,
Delete the oldest row
I'm not sure if this is the best method, since it's 3 additional database queries per user page view which is pretty heavy.
Is there a better way to do this?
The ideea is good. Improve it by updating the oldest row instead of deleting it and then adding a new one. ;)
Also make a single read query and a single write query.
make a query that is like this one
SELECT (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM recentArticles WHERE userID = 23)
AS NoOfArticles, articleID, timestamp
FROM recentArticles
WHERE userID = 23
ORDER BY timestamp ASC
LIMIT 1;
If NoOfArticles < 24 then execute an insert query, else execute an update query to articleID
You could always implement this using cookies to key on which pages have been visited and keeping a running list on the users PC. This will reduce the traffic to the site, put the processing scripts on the user-side, and could be easier to implement.
That being said, I agree with the other answer about updating the oldest entry if the table is full. This eliminates the need to delete and add a row. Key off a time-date stamp to sort the entries when you're displaying them and to figure out which page was the oldest (and needs to be updated if >= 24 pages.
You can merge two queries in one. In this way, You will save execution time of your script. So, basically, DELETE row if the post count is more than 24. You can modify this query according to your exact need. But yes, you can think on this way.
DELETE FROM `table_name`
WHERE id=(SELECT (CASE WHEN COUNT(id)>24 then id END)
AS last_id
FROM `table_name`
WHERE user_id='XX'
ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1);
Related
I am making a site which allows admins to basically add points for a user.
At this point in time, I have a table, where id_child is unique, and id_points changes. So a constant stream of id_points can come in, however, it will only show the latest id_points, not the total.
I am wondering how I could go about creating a PHP script that could add all of those together.
From the image, the idea is that I want all id_points values added together to give a total, and this is for the same id_child
Use SQL sum() funciton:
select sum(id_points) from table `table_name` where `id_child` = 1
Hope i understood right.
First if you want to show only the latest points added you have to create another table #__points where you will keep every new change of points.
You need 3 columns id as PRIMARY and AUTO_INCRENMENT , pts and user_id . user_id will be FK to id_child.
So when you want to add a new record :
INSERT INTO `#__points` (pts,user_id) VALUES ("$pts",$id)
When you want to select last inserted value for each admin :
SELECT * from `#__points` where user_id=$id ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT 1
My professor wants us to create a web-based comment system wherein a user can send up to 3 comments, if the user decides to create another one when he already has 3 comments named after him on the database, the program should delete the oldest one and save the new one.
What I thought about was to fetch the rows named after the user and if it is greater or equal to 4, I should delete the row where username = session user and insert the new record. Although this was just in theory, is this the best way to go about this? Do you guys have any other suggestions? How exactly do I pick the rows to remove? Do I base it off the highest comment_id?
Read: Leave only first 50 records in SQL database and delete the rest
So basically do this:
Create an Auto Increment Id with the comments.
Then:
DELETE FROM comments
WHERE
id NOT IN (
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT id
FROM comments
ORDER BY date
desc LIMIT 3) s
)
Do not delete the rows in the database, just do a limit 0,4 on your select query
with a order by on a create date
I have a table with data relating to a user, and two important columns:
refer_count, which is updated when a new entry is made in the table with the referred_by column set to that users user_id, and referred_by which is the user_id of the of the user that referred them.
I want to select the users from the table that have the highest number of referrals after a certain date.
For example:
If there are 3 users, one of which referred the other 2 (lets say users 2 and 3), however user 2 was referred on the 2/12/14, whereas user 3 was referred on the 3/1/15.
If the cutoff is 1/12/14, then user 1 is returned with refer_count set to 2, but if the cutoff is after 2/12/14, then user 1 is returned with refer_count set to 1.
I've been thinking of how to do this, but I can't think of a way that would work. Is there a way?
This is via MySQL.
EDIT: I think I may need to provide for information.
The date registered (register_date) is used as the refer date. I need the refer_count to be updated with the number of users referred after the cutoff, however I need to get the actual user. This is for a 'top referrers' table. I can't figure out why I'm having so much trouble thinking of a way to do this.
SELECT user_id FROM usertable WHERE (referal_date BETWEEN '2014-12-2' AND CURDATE())ORDER BY refer_count DESC;
That's the rough idea.
You should look into normalizing your tables if you're keeping that all in the same table, though. It'd be better to keep referals in a seperate table.
Get the row with the maximum in refer_count with a Date condition for your referal_date such that it's after the certainDate:
SELECT user_id FROM table WHERE refer_count = (SELECT MAX(refer_count) FROM table) AND referal_date>certainDate;
Note that WHERE is before SELECT so it will not get the highest count first, but will filter with the date condition then get the highest count.
Edit: Updated query based on edited question.
I want to be able to update a row with the highest ID.
The problem is: I can't find any elegant solution to do this.
This is my best attempt so far:
$highestId = mysql_result(mysql_query('SELECT MAX(id) FROM stats'),0);
mysql_query("UPDATE stats SET views = views +1 WHERE id = $highestId");
Maybe there there is a better approach than I am thinking of.
I am tracking the amount of views, every day
I want it to auto-increment the last (highest id) day
In the evening I'm running a cronjob that creates a new day.
Any suggestion on how to tackle this problem are welcome, even if it is a whole different approach.
Table stats => id | views
Yes:
UPDATE stats SET views = views +1 ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1
You can use #dev-null-dweller version if you don't suffer from table ordering. Or you can use a subquery.
UPDATE stats SET views = views +1 WHERE id = (SELECT * FROM (SELECT MAX(id) FROM stats) id)
You can profile both solutions and see which one works best for your case.
I think the following would be the best solution for you to track the stats, does not require a cronjob.
Create a table with two columns
Table: stats
Columns: stat_date (DATE) PRIMARY, views (INT)
Then run the query:
$query = "INSERT INTO stats(stat_date, views) VALUES('".date('Y-m-d')."', 1) ".
'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE views = views + 1';
Edit: I previously suggested a DATETIME type for the stat_date column, but it's obvious that a DATETIME doesn't make sense for you, since you want only a record for a day not a second. Thus, I substituted the DATETIME type for DATE.
You could also sort results by id desc and just edit the first result.
Edit: Too late sorry. :)
I run points system on my site so I need to keep logs of different action of my users into database. The problem is that I have too many users and keeping all the records permanently may cause server overload... I there a way to keep only 10 records per user and automatically delete older entries? Does mysql have some function for this?
Thanks in advance
You can add a trigger that takes care of removing old entries.
For instance,
DELIMITER //
CREATE definer='root'#'localhost' TRIGGER afterMytableInsert AFTER INSERT ON MyTable
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
DELETE FROM MyTable WHERE user_id = NEW.user_id AND id NOT IN
(SELECT id FROM MyTable WHERE user_id = NEW.user_id ORDER BY action_time DESC LIMIT 10);
END//
Just run an hourly cron job that deletes the 11th - n records.
Before insert a record you could check how many the user has first. If they have >=10 delete the oldest one. Then insert the new one.
If your goal is to have the database ensure that for a given table there are never more than N rows per a given subkey (user) then the correct way to solve this will be either:
Use stored procedures to manage inserts in the table.
Use a trigger to delete older rows after an insert.
If you're already using stored procedures for data access, then modifying the insert procedure would make the most sense, otherwise a trigger will be the easiest solution.
Alternately if your goal is to periodically remove old data, then using a cron job to start a stored procedure to prune old data would make the most sense.
When you are inserting a new record for a user. Just do a query like this before (Don't forget the where-condition):
DELETE FROM tablename WHERE userID = 'currentUserId' LIMIT 9, 999999
After that you can insert new data. This keeps the data always to ten records for each user.
INSERT INTO tablename VALUES(....)
DELETE FROM Table WHERE ID NOT IN (SELECT TOP 10 ID FROM Table WHERE USER_ID = 1) AND USER_ID = 1
Clearer Version
DELETE FROM Table
WHERE ID NOT IN
(
SELECT TOP 10 ID FROM Table WHERE USER_ID = 1
)
AND USER_ID = 1