I have a very basic site (just learning this stuff) where I have the results for a hockey pool I do from here.
I want to build a page that lists the players and then when they click on a name, a page comes up with just that player's picks on it. You can see the kind of page I mean here.
THis page currently only shows one player, as I am using this query:
$q = "SELECT *, player_id, handle
FROM round_one
INNER JOIN players USING (player_id)
WHERE (player_id = 1)";
Right now I have it set just to return player_id 1, but I want it to do player_id 2, 3, 4 etc depending on what linked name they click on.
I have been reviewing some documentation on sort by columns queries when clicking on a column header, and am thinking this is sort of the approach I should be taking, but I just can't seem to figure out the correct way to do it.
You can achieve this by passing a parameter to the view_picks_by_player.php page, and then PHP can pick up that parameter and generate content for the appropriate player.
For example, in the page where you select the player you want stats for you could have:
<a href='view_picks_by_player?id=player1'>Get Player 1's Stats!</a>
<a href='view_picks_by_player?id=player2'>Get Player 2's Stats!</a>
And then in the top of the view_picks_by_player.php page you could have:
$id = $_GET['id'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM player_stats WHERE id = '$id'";
Obviously your SQL is structured differently, but this is just a quick way to show how you can pass a variable to the php page so it can generate different content dynamically.
For security, you'll want to validate that the user has not typed anything nasty into the URL as the 'id' before you use it in your SQL, but that's another topic...
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Disclaimer I'm self taught. Got my rudimentary knowledge of php reading forums. I'm an sql newb, and know next to nothing about yii.
I've got a controller that shows the products on our webstore. I would like the out of stock products to show up on the last pages.
I know I could sort by stock quantity but would like the in stock products to change order every time the page is reloaded.
My solution (probably wrong but kinda works) is to run two queries. One for the product that has stock, sorted randomly. One for the out of stock product also ordered randomly. I then merge the two resulting arrays. This much has worked using the code below (although I feel like there must be a more efficient way than running two queries).
The problem is that this messes up the pagination. Every product returned is listed on the same page and changing pages shows the same results. As far as I can tell the pagination only works for 1 CDbCriteria at a time. I've looked at the yii docs for CPagination for a way around this but am not getting anywhere.
$criteria=new CDbCriteria;
$criteria->alias = 'Product';
$criteria->addCondition('(inventory_avail>0 OR inventoried=0)');
$criteria->addCondition('Product.parent IS NULL');
$criteria->addCondition('web=1');
$criteria->addCondition('current=1');
$criteria->addCondition('sell>sell_web');
$criteria->order = 'RAND()';
$criteria2=new CDbCriteria;
$criteria2->alias = 'Product';
$criteria2->addCondition('(inventory_avail<1 AND inventoried=1)');
$criteria2->addCondition('Product.parent IS NULL');
$criteria2->addCondition('web=1');
$criteria2->addCondition('current=1');
$criteria2->addCondition('sell>sell_web');
$criteria2->order = 'RAND()';
$crit1=Product::model()->findAll($criteria);
$crit2=Product::model()->findAll($criteria2);
$models=array_merge($crit1,$crit2);
//I know there is something wrong here, no idea how to fix it..
$count=Product::model()->count($criteria);
$pages=new CPagination($count);
//results per page
$pages->pageSize=30;
$pages->applyLimit($criteria);
$this->render('index', array(
'models' => $models,
'pages' => $pages
));
Clearly I am in over my head. Any help would be much appreciated.
Edit:
I figured that a third CDbCriteria that includes both the in stock and out of stock items could be used for the pagination (as it would include the same number of products as the combined results of the first 2). So I tried adding this (criteria1 and criteria2 remain the same):
$criteria3=new CDbCriteria;
$criteria3->alias = 'Product';
//$criteria3->addCondition('(inventory_avail>0 OR inventoried=0)');
$criteria3->addCondition('Product.parent IS NULL');
$criteria3->addCondition('web=1');
$criteria3->addCondition('current=1');
$criteria3->addCondition('sell>sell_web');
//$criteria3->order = 'RAND()';
$crit1=Product::model()->findAll($criteria);
$crit2=Product::model()->findAll($criteria2);
$models=array_merge($crit1,$crit2);
$count=Product::model()->count($criteria3);
$pages=new CPagination($count);
//results per page
$pages->pageSize=30;
$pages->applyLimit($criteria3);
$crit1=Product::model()->findAll($criteria);
$crit2=Product::model()->findAll($criteria2);
$models=array_merge($crit1,$crit2);
$this->render('index', array(
'models' => $models,
'pages' => $pages
));
I'm sure I'm missing something super obvious here... Been searching all day getting nowhere.
So you are running into what is IMO one of the potential drawbacks of natural language query builder frameworks. They can get your thinking on how you might approach a SQL problem going down a bad path when trying to work with the "out of the box" methods for building queries. Sometimes you might need to think about using raw SQL query capabilities that most every framework to provide in order to best address your problem.
So let's start with the basic SQL for how I would suggest you approach your problem. You can either work this into your query builder style (if possible) or make a raw query.
You could easily form a calculated field representing binary inventory status for sorting. Then also sort by another criteria secondarily.
SELECT
field1,
field2,
/* other fields */
IF(inventory_avail > 0, 1, 0) AS in_inventory
FROM product
WHERE /* where conditions */
ORDER BY
in_inventory DESC, /* sort items in inventory first */
other_field_to_sort ASC /* other sort criteria */
LIMIT ?, ? /* pagination row limit and offset */
Note that this approach only returns the rows of data you need to display. You move away from your current approach of doing a lot of work in the application to merge record sets and such.
I do question use of RAND() for pagination purposes as doing so will yield products potentially appearing on one page after another as the user paginates through the pages, with other products perhaps not showing up at all. Either that or you need to have some additional complexity added to your applicatoin to somehow track the "randomized" version of the entire result set for each specific user. For this reason, it is really unusual to see order randomization for paginated results display.
I know you mentioned you might like to spike out a randomized view to the user on a "first page". If this is a desire that is OK, but perhaps you decouple or differentiate that specific view from a wider paginated view of the product listing so as to not confuse the end user with a seemingly unpredictable pagination interface.
In your ORDER BY clause, you should always have enough sorting conditions to where the final (most specific) condition will guarantee you a predictable order result. Oftentimes this means you have to include an autoincrementing primary key field, or similar field that provides uniqueness for the row.
So let's say for example I had the ability for user to sort items by price, but you still obviously wanted to show all inventoried items first. Now let's say you have 100K products such that you will have many "pages" of products with a common price when ordered by price
If you used this for ordering:
ORDER BY in_inventory DESC, price ASC
You could still have the problem of a user seeing the same product repeated when navigating between pages, because a more specific criteria than price was not given and ordering beyond that criteria is not guaranteed.
You would probably want to do something like:
ORDER BY in_inventory DESC, price ASC, unique_id ASC
Such that the order is totally predictable (even though the user may not even know there is sorting being applied by unique id).
I’ve got a problem selecting some things in my database.
I’ve got 1 database with a lot of tables, however I only use 2 with this specific task.
I have a Clothing table, and I need to import this in my new database. I have succesfully transferred a lot of data, but now I need to take 1 final small step into completing this. In my Clothing table I have a column called Youtube link, here I have a link with an Youtube link, this specific link, in this specific column, I want to append that to another table I have in the database, let’s call it new_clothing_table. I there have a description column called prod_desc and I want to append the Youtube link to that column.
But there is also another “problem”, it’s not that every product has a Youtube link, so things have to be filtered in order to not fuck things royally up. A advantage I have, I have in both tables a product_name, and these are all the same. So I want to transfer that specific Youtube link if it’s there (sometimes there is a 0 filled in or nothing, but I dont think it’s NULL because if I make a SELECT query where Youtube_link is null I get zero rows..)
So can someone help me out>?
mysql has an update-join construct you can use:
UPDATE new_clothing_table nct
JOIN clothing c ON c.product_name = nct.product_name AND
c.youtube_link != '0'
SET nct.description = CONCAT(nct.description, c.youtube_link)
EDIT:
To make sure this does what you want, you could first select the updated content in order to examine it:
SELECT nct.description AS old_description,
CONCAT(nct.description, c.youtube_link) AS new_description
FROM new_clothing_table nct
JOIN clothing c ON c.product_name = nct.product_name AND
c.youtube_link != '0'
OK, in good old fashioned PHP MVC, I might use a model to hit the DB, send info to my PHP controller that I pass on to the View. In the View, I might take that info (say i ajax'ed my controller for the info) and create a table or ul to display the data returned.
I've had trouble finding any modern (ver 6.1 is what i'm on) tutorial to show me how to preform this action in typo3.
Can anyone just "steer" me in the right direction? Perhaps provide an example via answer, or some links to further information that may compare it down to "old fashioned MVC"?
Extension has been suggested, but I'd like to know the very base process of what I'm asking before I try writing some extension, unless the extension is the only way. Although, my table is now on the SAME DB my typo3 is on, so shouldn't there be some command to just simply call my table and get the rows? Maybe send them to a ###sub-part###?
You can use a typoscript cObj content and the select option together with the function render_obj when your table name is like the typo3 nameing convention. The select pulls the record from the table and pass it to the render_obj function. It's a function that can apply to all cObj and iterate over the entire selection. stdWrap works only on the entire cObj. When you need to work through each record you need the render_obj function. For example:
10 = CONTENT
10 {
select {
pidInList = 1
where = colpos=1
orderBy = sorting
}
table = tt_content
renderObj.stdWrap.wrap = <li>|</li>
renderObj.stdWrap.required = 1
}
10.stdWrap.wrap = <ul>|</ul>
This gives you an unorderd list from the tt_content table with pid=1 and the content from the far left column.
I am trying to figure out how to have PHP check and print 2 different functions.
Both of these questions are referring to table called "remix".
The first, and more important problem at the minute, is I would like to know how to show how many DIFFERENT values are under "author", as to compile the amount of total authors registered. I need to know not only how to most efficiently use COUNT on returning UNIQUE names under "author", but how to show it inline with the total number of rows, which are currently numbered.
The second question would be asking how I would be able to set up a top 3 artists, based on how many times their name occurs in a list. This also would show on the same page as the above code.
Here is my current code:
require 'remix/archive/connect.php';
mysql_select_db($remix);
$recentsong = mysql_query("SELECT ID,song,author,filename FROM remix ORDER by ID desc limit 1;");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($recentsong);
echo'
<TABLE BORDER=1><TR><TD WIDTH=500>
Currently '.$row['ID'].' Remixes by **(want total artists here)** artists.<BR>
Most recent song: <A HREF=remix/archive/'.$row['filename'].'>'.$row['song'].'</A> by <FONT COLOR=white>'.$row['author'].'</FONT>
So as you can see, I have it currently set up to show the most recent song (not the most efficient way), but want the other things in there, such as at least the top contributor, but don't know if I would be able to put it all in one php block, break it, or be able to do it all within one quarry call, with the right code.
Thanks for any help!
I'm not sure I really understood everything in your question but we'll work this through together :p
I've created an SQLFiddle to work on some test data: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/9b613/1/0.
Note the INDEX on the author field, it will assure good performance :)
In order to know how to show how many DIFFERENT values are under "author" you can use:
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT author) as TOTAL_AUTHORS
FROM remix;
In order to know the total number of rows, which are currently numbered you can use:
SELECT COUNT(*) as TOTAL_SONGS
FROM remix;
And you can combine both in a single query:
SELECT
COUNT(DISTINCT author) as TOTAL_AUTHORS,
COUNT(*) as TOTAL_SONGS
FROM remix;
To the top 3 subject now. This query will give you the 3 authors with the greatest number of songs, first one on top:
SELECT
author,
COUNT(*) as AUTHOR_SONGS
FROM remix
GROUP BY author
ORDER BY AUTHOR_SONGS DESC
LIMIT 3;
Let me know if this answer is incomplete and have fun with SQL !
Edit1: Well, just rewrite your PHP code in:
(...)
$recentsong = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT author) as TOTAL_AUTHORS, COUNT(*) as TOTAL_SONGS FROM remix;");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($recentsong);
(...)
Currently '.$row['TOTAL_SONGS'].' Remixes by '.$row['TOTAL_AUTHORS'].' artists.<BR>
(...)
For the top3 part, use another mysql_query and create your table on the fly :)
Wow, makes your head spin!
I am about to start a project, and although my mySql is OK, I can't get my head around what required for this:
I have a table of web addresses.
id,url
1,http://www.url1.com
2,http://www.url2.com
3,http://www.url3.com
4,http://www.url4.com
I have a table of users.
id,name
1,fred bloggs
2,john bloggs
3,amy bloggs
I have a table of categories.
id,name
1,science
2,tech
3,adult
4,stackoverflow
I have a table of categories the user likes as numerical ref relating to the category unique ref. For example:
user,category
1,4
1,6
1,7
1,10
2,3
2,4
3,5
.
.
.
I have a table of scores relating to each website address. When a user visits one of these sites and says they like it, it's stored like so:
url_ref,category
4,2
4,3
4,6
4,2
4,3
5,2
5,3
.
.
.
So based on the above data, URL 4 would score (in it's own right) as follows: 2=2 3=2 6=1
What I was hoping to do was pick out a random URL from over 2,000,000 records based on the current users interests.
So if the logged in user likes categories 1,2,3 then I would like to ORDER BY a score generated based on their interest.
If the logged in user likes categories 2 3 and 6 then the total score would be 5. However, if the current logged in user only like categories 2 and 6, the URL score would be 3. So the order by would be in context of the logged in users interests.
Think of stumbleupon.
I was thinking of using a set of VIEWS to help with sub queries.
I'm guessing that all 2,000,000 records will need to be looked at and based on the id of the url it will look to see what scores it has based on each selected category of the current user.
So we need to know the user ID and this gets passed into the query as a constant from the start.
Ain't got a clue!
Chris Denman
What I was hoping to do was pick out a random URL from over 2,000,000 records based on the current users interests.
This screams for predictive modeling, something you probably wouldn't be able to pull off in the database. Basically, you'd want to precalculate your score for a given interest (or more likely set of interests) / URL combination, and then query based on the precalculated values. You'd most likely be best off doing this in application code somewhere.
Since you're trying to guess whether a user will like or dislike a link based on what you know about them, Bayes seems like a good starting point (sorry for the wikipedia link, but without knowing your programming language this is probably the best place to start): Naive Bayes Classifier
edit
The basic idea here is that you continually run your precalculation process, and once you have enough data you can try to distill it to a simple formula that you can use in your query. As you collect more data, you continue to run the precalculation process and use the expanded results to refine your formula. This gets really interesting if you have the means to suggest a link, then find out whether the user liked it or not, as you can use this feedback loop really improve the prediction algorithm (have a read on machine learning, particularly genetic algorithms, for more on this)
I did this in the end:
$dbh = new NewSys::mySqlAccess("xxxxxxxxxx","xxxxxxxxxx","xxxxxxxxx","localhost");
$icat{1}='animals pets';
$icat{2}='gadget addict';
$icat{3}='games online play';
$icat{4}='painting art';
$icat{5}='graphic designer design';
$icat{6}='philosophy';
$icat{7}='strange unusual bizarre';
$icat{8}='health fitness';
$icat{9}='photography photographer';
$icat{10}='reading books';
$icat{11}='humour humor comedy comedian funny';
$icat{12}='psychology psychologist';
$icat{13}='cartoons cartoonist';
$icat{14}='internet technology';
$icat{15}='science scientist';
$icat{16}='clothing fashion';
$icat{17}='movies movie latest';
$icat{18}="\"self improvement\"";
$icat{19}='drawing art';
$icat{20}='latest band member';
$icat{21}='shop prices';
$icat{22}='recipe recipes food';
$icat{23}='mythology';
$icat{24}='holiday resorts destinations';
$icat{25}="(rude words)";
$icat{26}="www website";
$dbh->Sql("DELETE FROM precalc WHERE member = '$fdat{cred_id}'");
$dbh->Sql("SELECT * FROM prefs WHERE member = '$fdat{cred_id}'");
#chos=();
while($dbh->FetchRow()){
$cat=$dbh->Data('category');
$cats{$cat}='#';
}
foreach $cat (keys %cats){
push #chos,"\'$cat\'";
push #strings,$icat{$cat};
}
$sqll=join("\,",#chos);
$words=join(" ",#strings);
$dbh->Sql("select users.id,users.url,IFNULL((select sum(scoretot.scr) from scoretot where scoretot.id = users.id and scoretot.category IN \($sqll\)),0) as score from users WHERE MATCH (description,lasttweet) AGAINST ('$words' IN BOOLEAN MODE) AND IFNULL((SELECT ref FROM visited WHERE member = '$fdat{cred_id}' AND user = users.id LIMIT 1),0) = 0 ORDER BY score DESC limit 30");
$cnt=0;
while($dbh->FetchRow()){
$id=$dbh->Data('id');
$url=$dbh->Data('url');
$score=$dbh->Data('score');
$dbh2->Sql("INSERT INTO precalc (member,user,url,score) VALUES ('$fdat{cred_id}','$id','$url','$score')");
$cnt++;
}
I came up with this answer about three months ago, and just cannot read it. So sorry, I can't explain how it finally worked, but it managed to query 2 million websites and choose one based on the history of a users past votes on other sites.
Once I got it working, I moved on to another problem!
http://www.staggerupon.com is where it all happens!
Chris