Question

Basically I have a website where user vote on projects posted by users or “Support” everytime a user clicks the support button, it goes into a table and stores 3 things, a normal auto increment identifier, the user_id that ‘supported’ it and the project id they supported. Now everyday we want to display ‘Top projects’ on the homepage. This will my guess be done with a php script and a cron job. I can’t really think of how to query the database properly to determine X amount of top projects. (Most likely 5 or 10) Iv’e thought about this for a while, but I can’t think of an answer. Any ideas/answers help alot! Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, your going to have to add a time stamp of one sort or another to that database. So you can query by the day from midnight to 11:59p. I’d say datetime format ie: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS (its in 24 hour format)

From that if handled correctly you could do something like

<?php
$todayMidnight = date('Y-m-d'). ' 00:00:00';
$todayLastMin = date('Y-m-d'). ' 23:59:59';
$result = mysql_query("select * from the_table where the_Time BETWEEN $todayMidnight AND $todayLastMin LIMIT 10 order by the_count");
?>