Question

I have a database that looks something like this:

user_id    photo_id
1          1
1          2
1          3
1          4
2          5
2          6

I want to get a list of the most popular users from it. Like this:

Popular Users: 1 (4) & 2 (2)

How would I go about doing that in mysql in PHP?

Thanks, Coulton

PS: I do know much about mysql commands so you don’t have to dumb it down. Thanks!

Answer 1

The basic query would be:

select user_id, count(user_id) as cnt
from yourtable
group by user_id
order by cnt desc 

To display the results, something like:

$results = array()
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query_result)) {
   $results[] = "{$row['user_id']} ({$row['cnt']})"
   // repeat for however many results you want
}
echo "Popular user: ", implode(" & ", $results);