Question

I am trying to create a PHP trigger for when a user views certain pages on my website it will update the user table in the points section.

I understand the process would work something like this

on page view > update user > where user id is (**get username from session**) > add 5 to points row

Anyone have any idea how to set up something simple like this for giving users simple points for viewing pages?

My site is using PHP and mySQL for the database.

Answer 1

Use cookies or session variables to keep track of the user details like the username or ID. So making a pageview trigger would be as easy as adding a mysql query at the top of every page which would update the database table for views. Kinda the same way that forums operate.

E.g

<?php

session_start();

$db_connection = mysqli_connect('host','username','password','db');
$user_id = $_SESSION['userid']; //That is asssuming that you had gotten the user id on login

mysqli_query($db_connection, 'UPDATE page_views SET views_column=views_column+1 WHERE userid=$user_id');

?>