Question

I want to group every date that it is in the database and get the highest amount to display it on the website. I have tried to use this SQL; SELECT COUNT(date_visited) FROM visitors GROUP BY date_visited but it only shows 1.

The database looks like this:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `visitors` (
  `id` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `ipaddress` text NOT NULL,
  `page` text NOT NULL,
  `page_get` text NOT NULL,
  `date_visited` datetime NOT NULL,
  `date_lastactive` datetime NOT NULL,
  `date_revisited` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)
)

How can I solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Andomar’s answer is right that you are grouping by the datetime instead of just the date.

In addition, it seems you are trying to find the date that occurs most often in your table. To do this you can try the following:

SELECT DATE(date_visited)
FROM visitors
GROUP BY DATE(date_visited)
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
LIMIT 1