Question

I have this file.php file that is doing a

SELECT 'NAME' FROM users WHERE CONDITION

I would like to keep track of the rows that have been served for every call.
so I’d like to keep a counter for each row.

What is the most efficient way in PHP to update a counter for every row that was fetched?

Answer 1

you need to add an extra column for view/fetch count

SELECT          
    ...., views+1 as view
FROM table_name
WHERE ....

UPDATE table_name
SET views = views + 1
WHERE ...;

you can put it in a Transaction