Question

While working with a fine young man from SO last night, I got a great deal of work done on an attendance system for a friend’s guild, and now it’s all done except for one part.

We made a lot of progress, but the friend that I’m helping had one last request. On each user’s page, we would output how many raids the user had been to and missed, but we also output the percent of raids that would be.

Example:

 Date                   Member                Attended
 8/10/2011 1:44:27pm    Testing1234           Yes
 8/10/2011 1:44:45pm    Testing1234           Yes
 8/10/2011 1:44:53pm    Testing1234           No

                    Overall Attendance: 66.666666667%

The way that we compute the percent on each page is done like this (at the time of the user lookup):

 $total_query= mysql_query("SELECT rAttend, rTotal FROM users WHERE userName='$v_member'");
    $result = mysql_fetch_assoc($total_query);
    $percent = $result['rTotal'] == 0 ? 0 : (($result['rAttend'] / $result['rTotal']) * 100);

The friend now wants me to make a new table where I have each member ($v_member) sorted on a page by their raid attendance percentage. I am a bit lost on how to do this, in a way that wouldn’t be manual. Can someone help me out with at least a place to start on this?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

SELECT userName, rAttend, rTotal, 100 * (rAttend / rTotal) as rAverage
FROM users
ORDER BY rAverage