Question

Generally speaking, how can I keep a user from seeing a profile he has already voted on so that he does not vote on it twice?

I have a table (called “Users”) of users each with a unique user ID (with column “userID”), I have another table (called “Votes”) for each vote given by each user to another user (using their respective user ID’s with columns “fromUser”, “toUser”, “vote”), so if I want to show a user a new random profile to vote on, then what is the BEST way to exclude any users where the current User has already voted on (in other words, exclude any “userID” where the “userID” is the “toUser” and where the “fromUser” is the current user’s userID).

Thanks!

Answer 1

SELECT userID FROM users
WHERE userID NOT IN (SELECT toUser FROM votes WHERE fromUser = 'theUserIdThatIsVotingNow')
ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1