Question

I am using the following MySQL query to generate a table for users in a database. The query is designed to just return one row for each user, even though there are multiple rows for each user. This works fine, however I also need to calculate the number of unique entries for each user, to enter into the table where it states HERE. Do I need to use another query to return the count for all entries, and if so how do I integrate this with the code I already have?

$query="SELECT from_user, COUNT(*) AS num FROM tracks GROUP BY from_user ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC";
$result=mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

        while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
        $user = $row['from_user'];

        echo "<tr>";
        echo "<td>".$user."</td>";
        echo "<td>uploads (**HERE**)</td>";
        echo "<td>favourites (count)</td>";
        echo "</tr>";
        }
?>
</table>

Answer 1

Because you’ve already created the custom field ‘num’, you can use that to get the count!

Add the following line after user = ...

$count = $row['num'];

Then you can

echo "<td>uploads ($count)</td>";