Question

I would like to make it able for my users to add each other as friends. I just don’t know exactly how to do it.

I have a table called “members” where the users have (ofc) and ID,username,pass etc etc. and then I was thinking of creating another table called “friends”, where I was planning to have the rows -> username (the friend added) and friend_to (who the friend ‘belongs’ to).

But; I just don’t know – how I should make the “add friend” link, and make it INSERT INTO the table? Can I make an onClick on the link, or what should I do? :-s

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Have a table called friends have rows, (id, user_id, friend_id, status, time)

id is the index, user_id is the one requesting friendship, friend_id is the receiver, status is the status of friendship like pending or declined, and time is the timestamp of the time when the request was sent.

Then in a php code check if the users aren’t friends then let them add each other as friends. One way you could check was like this

(SELECT COUNT(*) AS total WHERE (`user_id` = ".$_SESSION['user_id']." AND `friend_id` = ".$_GET['friend_id'].") OR (`user_id` = ".$_GET['friend_id']." AND `friend_id` = ".$_SESSION['user_id']."))

the above code will check if they are users, and if they are you would not let them re add each other, if they aren’t the user gets a button to add them to friends, where it inserts into a database new row, with user_id being the user sending and friend_id the user’s page the sender is submitting the button from