Never ending increment?

Orc · 02-13-2008, 10:43 PM

I probably sound like a noob for this cause I never tried it. :P
Usually when incrementing, it only increments by one, but I want it to keep incrementing.

PHP Code:


			
$foo = 0;

$foo++;

This only increments it by 1 and then stops, and never increments again, now I might just have to make an existing counter or something to increment but this is for counting how many views are from a certain id in a database. Help, do I make this an Array, and keep adding onto the array by counting then adding that into it? :S

Village Idiot · 02-13-2008, 11:33 PM

Im not sure what you are trying to do, if you want to incriment a variable by more then one

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$var += 10;

Orc · 02-13-2008, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Village Idiot

Im not sure what you are trying to do, if you want to incriment a variable by more then one

PHP Code:


			
$var += 10;

I've never used that operator.

Also, when a user clicks on say an id on a page, then it increments the views column by one, and is displayed on the page.

Wildhoney · 02-14-2008, 04:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Orc

I've never used that operator.

Also, when a user clicks on say an id on a page, then it increments the views column by one, and is displayed on the page.

It's not really a single operator, but rather a mixture of 2. PHP has a lot of them. It allows you to omit repeating the variable again. Otherwise it'd be like:

php Code:

$i = $i + 1;

So instead we use the following:

php Code:

$i /= $i;
$i += $i;
$i -= $i;
$i *= $i;

Rendair · 02-13-2008, 11:35 PM

can you do some kind of select

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$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM example WHERE id = '$id'") or die(mysql_error());
$num = mysql_num_rows($query);

Or don't i understand what you actually mean by this question? maybe someone can explain?

Village Idiot · 02-13-2008, 11:54 PM

I dont think there is a way to do that.

Orc · 02-13-2008, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Village Idiot

I dont think there is a way to do that.

There has to be a way. I've seen it before so..

Rendair · 02-14-2008, 12:07 AM

You can more likely do it using Ajax seems simply enough

Alan @ CIT · 02-14-2008, 12:55 AM

I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do, but in your original code, the reason it only increments it to 1 is because you are resetting the variable to 0 before you increment it.

I'm guessing that you want to do something like vBulletins thread views counter. The general idea is to get the number of views (ie, from a database), increment it by one, then store the new value back in the database.

If you wanted to update the page instantly, then use Ajax as Rendair suggested after you have read/write the values to the database.

Alan

Village Idiot · 02-14-2008, 03:06 AM

What are you attempting to do? Reading your post again, it really doesnt make any sense.

Orc · 02-14-2008, 03:09 AM

I'm trying to increment every time there is a new view, a view is when someone goes onto a special page, and then it inserts the view into the mysql, and shows it on the front page. This is what I want for my image uploading script.

SOCK · 02-14-2008, 03:49 AM

Code:

UPDATE table
SET view_count= view_count+1
WHERE pageID= 1;

Orc · 02-14-2008, 06:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SOCK

Code:

UPDATE table
SET view_count= view_count+1
WHERE pageID= 1;

You just solved my problem, but it increments by 2 every time I view a page.

ReSpawN · 02-14-2008, 09:33 AM

PHP Code:


			
$postQuery = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM post WHERE id = "'.$_GET['id'].'"');
$postFetch = mysql_fetch_array($postQuery);

$newViews = $postFetch['viewcount'] + 1;

mysql_query('UPDATE post SET viewcount = "'.$newViews.'" WHERE id = "'.$_GET['id'].'"');

Finito.

Rendair · 02-14-2008, 10:30 AM

You can make it update the page instantly without having to refresh using something like this. You create 2 pages on with that script ReSpawn said or whatever and then the main page where you have some kind of onClick or something.

PHP Code:


			
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var request = false;

if(window.XMLHttpRequest){
  request = new XMLHttpRequest();
}else if(window.ActiveXObject){
  request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}

function getData(source){
  if(request){

    var sourceId = document.getElementById("hiddenFieldId").value;
    var newsource = source + "?id=" + sourceId;
    request.open("GET",newsource);
    request.onreadystatechange = function(){
      
         if(request.readyState < 4){
              document.getElementById("totalviews").innerHTML = "Updating....";
         }
         else if(request.readyState==4){
             document.getElementById("totalviews").innerHTML = request.responseText;
          }
          
    }
    request.send(null);
  }
}

//]]>
</script>

To use the script you can use something like

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<a href="#" onClick="getSource('process_views.php');"><div id="totalviews"> 4 Views </div></a>

Or something along that line anyway.

This example has a use of a hidden field containing the id then you can use the MySQL on a new page.

PHP Code:


			
$postQuery = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM post WHERE id = "'.$_GET['id'].'"');
$postFetch = mysql_fetch_array($postQuery);

$newViews = $postFetch['viewcount'] + 1;

mysql_query('UPDATE post SET viewcount = "'.$newViews.'" WHERE id = "'.$_GET['id'].'"'); 

echo $numViews; // echo the new number of views to be displayed

ReSpawN · 02-14-2008, 10:47 AM

Yeah, then you're using the AJAX framework. There are a lot of plugins for it if you're into it. Check out mootools.net Orc. :)

Orc · 02-14-2008, 10:49 AM

It keeps saying on Gmail, that Village Idiot replied to this thread. :/

ReSpawN · 02-14-2008, 01:23 PM

What do you mean? If you mean it gets the same ID over and over, you should make the $_GET['post'] or what ever dynamic.

Orc · 02-14-2008, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReSpawN

What do you mean? If you mean it gets the same ID over and over, you should make the $_GET['post'] or what ever dynamic.

Eh? No I ment that Gmail is screwed up, it keeps showing that Village Idiot has replied to this thread, but it's only someone else. :/

Village Idiot · 02-14-2008, 11:41 PM

Orc, if you want us to help you, you need to help us. What are you trying to do? We dont understand what you have previously said. If we know what you are trying to accomplish we could probably tell you how to do it.