I have 50+ rows and each have an id, how do i get the last 20 records and display each ones information with php.
Is the best way to use a loop? I want it to display the results quick and not miss any rows, is a loop the best way to go then?
This is the code that I have
$result = $mysqli_log->query("SELECT * FROM `$usern`");
while( $row = $result->fetch_array() ) {
$credit = $row['credit'];
echo $credit;
}
The MySQL query being executed doesn't specify any "order" to the rows; MySQL is free to return the rows in any order it chooses, so it's possible that the "last 20" rows on one run of the query might differ from the "last 20" rows on a second run.
(We do observe repeated behavior when the statement is re-executed; it usually takes some DML operations, the addition of an index, or an OPTIMIZE table statement, to actually get a change in the results returned... but the point is, there is no "last 20" rows in the table. In MySQL, it's just a set of rows.)
To specify a specific sequence of the rows, add an ORDER BY clause to the query. Assuming that you want to use the unique id column to order the rows, and you want the last 20 rows, and you want them returned in ascending id sequence:
SELECT t.*
FROM ( SELECT u.*
FROM `$usern` u
ORDER BY u.id DESC
LIMIT 20
) t
ORDER BY t.id
And, yes, processing rows "in a loop" in PHP, just like you demonstrate, is a normative pattern.
To limit the number of queries use Limit and order them desc by your ID
Select *
From `$usern`
Order By ID Desc
Limit 20
To Flip them back in the forward order you can use a derived table
Select *
From (Select ID, Test
From test
Order By ID Desc
Limit 3) d
Order By ID Asc
If you need the newest 20 records, you have to ORDER DESC the result set by ID and then LIMIT that set result to 20 records.
So you can
use something like this:
$result = $mysqli_log->query("SELECT * FROM `$usern` ORDER BY `ID` DESC LIMIT 20");
while( $row = $result->fetch_array() ) {
$credit = $row['credit'];
echo $credit;
}
Another good approach, if you are using associative keys like $row['credit'], is to use featch_assoc instead of featch_array (if your framework provides such a function)
Related
As said in the title, I need FIVE queries that returns the ID for rows with the 1st-5th most recent date.
Table: film
id releasedate
232143 2013-06-20
536523 2013-07-20
453554 2013-08-20
098776 2013-09-20
549302 2013-10-20
i.e the first query would return the id 549302
I think this would work for the first query:
$first = $db->query("SELECT id, FROM film WHERE MAX(releasedate)" );
PS: Sorry for the poor formatting of this post, can anyone tell me how to display tables appropriately?
I need to display each id at different points on the web page. Simply returning a list of ids won't suffice. What I really need is for each id to be encapsulated into a unique variable so i can call them at different points on the web page.
No, you don't need five queries.
$first = $db->query("SELECT `id` FROM `film` ORDER BY `releasedate` DESC LIMIT 5" );
This will get the IDs from the database of the five most recent films in your table.
To access each of these just run through a while loop.
while($row = $first->fetch_assoc()) {
$row['id']; # Each ID will be available like this.
}
If you really need to do this in separate queries, you can use the 2-argument form of the LIMIT clause, which is LIMIT offset, count. To get the newest film, use
SELECT id FROM film ORDER BY releasedate DESC LIMIT 0, 1
To get the 2nd most recent film, use
SELECT id FROM film ORDER BY releasedate DESC LIMIT 1, 1
the next one is
SELECT id FROM film ORDER BY releasedate DESC LIMIT 2, 1
and so on.
But it should be better to get them all in one query with
SELECT id FROM film ORDER BY releasedate DESC LIMIT 5
You can then save them all in an array with:
while($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
$ids[] = $row['id'];
}
Then you can use $ids[0] to display the most recent film, $ids[1] for the second most recent, and so on.
I have a column result in my table and want to know how many rows are affected where result contains a specific number like '3' in the last 25 rows before a specific id.
Eg: Want to know how many rows have a result = 3 of the 25 rows before the id "500".
What is the most efficiënt way to reach this in Php and MySQL.
You can do that completely with SQL:
SELECT COUNT(x.result)
FROM (
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE id < 500
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 25
) x
WHERE x.result = 3
First you find all entries that are relevant to your query by specifying the search criteria. Then you limit this search to 25 items and sort it in reverse order. That should yield the 25 last elements. Finally you just do your COUNT() for items with a result value of 3.
SELECT COUNT(result)
FROM table
WHERE id < '$specificID'
AND result = 3
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 25
Try this
SELECT count(*) FROM `your_table`
WHERE result LIKE '%3%'
AND id < 500
ORDER BY id ASC
LIMIT 25;
I want to return only the last 15 rows in my table, then the 15 before that.
Unfortunately while($rows = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) where the query is SELECT * FROM table returns the data in all rows.
I thought about doing something like:
In my insert script
SELECT * FROM table then $selection_id = mysql_num_rows($result)-14 before inserting any data, then adding column named selection_id which would contain $selection_id, thus each set of 15 rows would have the same selection_id.
In my select script
SELECT * FROM table then $num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result)/15 then SELECT * FROM table WHERE selection_id='$num_rows' and SELECT * FROM table WHERE selection_id='$num_rows-1'.
I could then perform while(..) on both results as usual.
However, I'm not sure this is the most efficient way (chances are it's not), so if not, I'd really appreciate some suggestions to cut down the amount of code I'll have to use :)!!
Use a LIMIT clause in your query, order by your auto-incrementing primary key in descending order. E.g.
SELECT * FROM `table` ORDER BY `selection_id` DESC LIMIT 0,15
...will get the last 15 rows, and:
SELECT * FROM `table` ORDER BY `selection_id` DESC LIMIT 15,15
...will get the 15 rows before that.
Selecting the last 15 rows:
SELECT *
FROM `table`
ORDER BY `id` DESC
LIMIT 0,15
Selecting the 15 rows before the previous ones:
SELECT *
FROM `table`
ORDER BY `id` DESC
LIMIT 15,15
And you can continue in a while cycle.
You need to check out mysql LIMIT. To get the last 15, you'd need to know the number of total rows.
$offset=$rowcount-15;
$sql="SELECT * FROM mytable LIMIT $offset,15";
This is just for example, you'd want to make sure there are at least 15 rows, I'm not sure how mysql would deal with a negative offset. I'll let you figure out how to count the rows.
Edit:
Oh, haha, you could also just sort it descending, that will save you having to query twice.
SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 15;
I have a mysql table. It has auto increment on the id. but I regularly delete rows so the numbers are all over the place. I need to get the last n rows out, but because of deletions, the common way of using the max of the autoincremented id column doesn't work well...
1 - Is their another way to get the bottom 50?
2 - Is their a way to get rows by actual row number? so if I have 4 rows labelled 1,2,3,4 delete row 2 then it will become 1,2,3 rather than 1,3,4?
SELECT ... ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 50
SELECT *
FROM TABLE
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 50
EDIT
To pick the last 50, but sort by id ASC
SELECT X.*
FROM ( SELECT *
FROM TABLE
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 50
) X
ORDER BY X.id
1 - First get total row count like
SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM ...
then use
SELECT ..... LIMIT [start],[count]
2 - One idea is to use view , or procedure, but this is much more harder and may be used when there is no other way to avoid this
1 - Is their another way to get the bottom 50?
SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY record_id DESC LIMIT 50
2 - Is their a way to get rows by actual row number? so if I have 4 rows labelled 1,2,3,4 delete row 2 then it will become 1,2,3 rather than 1,3,4?
SELECT * FROM table_name
1 - Yes but it is ugly afaik, you do a
SELECT whateveryouwant FROM table ORDER BY yourprimarykey DESC LIMIT 50
the you fetch the rows into an array and reverse the array, in php :
$r = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY primarykey DESC LIMIT 50');
$set = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($r)) $set = $row;
$set = array_reverse($set);
foreach($set as $row) {
// display row ...
}
2 - You'll have to manage your primary key by yourself, its a bit risky ...
I am coding a blog post kind of thing, where the author will post the article and it will be displayed in the front end, my problem starts for selecting the posts as i have to meet certain conditions for posting the news in the front end,
I have 4 fields in the database namely
title
pic_title
pic_brief
pic_detail
you guessed it right apart from the title table the rest of three will hold the path to the images in varchar datatype, which will be used to display as the post, the format of the front end is such that
a) there will be total of eight post
displaying in the front end (eight
entries from the database)
b) there will be three post on the top which will include the value from
the table title, pic_title and
pic_brief (total of 3 values)
c) and the rest five will contain just the title and pic_title
(excluding the three entries of top)
Please NOTE: i want the second query to exclude the top 3 record
which already exist in the top i.e
(first query = 3 post in descending
order, second query = 8 - first 3 = 5
post)
The Order of the Post i want is by id DESC
EDIT: I took the first query as
SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 3
Now if i take the same second query and try populating the values by desc order again the same records will be accessed
In simple words i want a query that will skip the last three records order by id DESC
How do i achieve this feat in PHP?
If you just want the SQL, here it is:
First query
SELECT * FROM `table` LIMIT 3
Second query
SELECT * FROM `table` LIMIT 3,5
(where table is the name of your table of course. Of course you may want to add some ORDER BY clause. To execute these queries in PHP, I suggest reading the manual. If you have any specific problems after doing so, then you can post a new question.
This is a situation where I'd likely opt to select all eight records at once - the less trips to the database, the better.
SELECT t.title,
t.pic_title,
t.pic_brief
FROM TABLE t
ORDER BY t.id DESC
LIMIT 8
...because the rest is just presentation:
$query = sprintf("SELECT t.title,
t.pic_title,
t.pic_brief
FROM TABLE t
ORDER BY t.id DESC
LIMIT 8");
// Perform Query
$result = mysql_query($query) or die( mysql_error() );
$rowcount = 1;
// Use result
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
if(rowcount <= 3) {
echo $row['title']
echo $row['pic_title']
echo $row['pic_brief']
} else {
echo $row['title']
echo $row['pic_title']
}
++$rowcount;
}
first query will be like this
"select title, pic_title , pic_brief from table_name order by post_id desc limit 0 , 3"
and rest of five will be
"select title, pic_title from table_name order by post_id desc limit 3 , 5"
second query will exclude the three results returned by first query...
If you want more perfection you can collect all three Ids returned by first query and can add NOT IN in second query.
"select title, pic_title from table_name where post_id not in (1,2,3) order by post_id desc limit 0 , 5";