Question

Well I have this mysql table with numbers in one column and a confirmation boolean of 0 or 1 and I have about 1,000 rows so it’s not something I can do manually but anyways…
I want to sort the row by highest value and grab the names of the first 5 people and put those 5 people in another table on a column and then set them to confirmed and continue until there’s no one left in the table that isn’t confirmed…
ex:

Name:Rank:Confirm
Bob:5000:0
James:34:0
Josh:59:1
Alex:48:0
Romney:500:0
Rolf:24:0
Hat:51:0

so when you run the code it will do the following:

Squad:Name1:Name2:Name3:Name4:Name5
1:Bob:Romney:Hat:Alex:James 

(as you can see Josh was excluded and Rolf was too low)

And since Rolf is alone and there are no one else left, he wont be put into a team and will be left unconfirmed…

I’m not really pro at mysql so I was stumped on this and at most was capable of organizing the whole thing by rank and that’s it ._.

edit:
The terrible attempt I had at this:

<?php 
$parse = mysql_query("SELECT MAX(rank) AS rank FROM users AND confirm='0'");
mysql_query("Insert into squad (nameone)values($parse)");
mysql_query("Update squad set confirm = '1' where name = $parse");
?>

Answer 1

Assuming confirm will have only either 1 or 0.

CREATE TABLE table2 (id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, name varchar(255));
CREATE PROCEDURE rank()
BEGIN
   DECLARE count INT DEFAULT 1;
   WHILE count > 0 DO
      UPDATE table1 SET Confirm=2 WHERE Confirm=0 ORDER BY Rank DESC LIMIT 5; 
      INSERT INTO table2 (SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(Name) FROM table1 WHERE Confirm=2);
      UPDATE table1 SET Confirm=1 WHERE Confirm=2;
      SELECT count(*) FROM table1 WHERE Confirm=0;
   END WHILE;
END;

Call the procedure rank() when ever you want
CALL rank();