Re: [PHP-DB] Pulling an ID list from a DB, then filtering that list againstanother list of ID's

2003-08-14 Thread CPT John W. Holmes
From: Matt Babineau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Got an interesting problem! I have a list of ID's, basically  things
 people have viewed on my website. When I pull the viewable items from my
 database, I need to be able to filter out all the ID's people have
 already viewed, so that they only get a list of things they have not
 viewed.

 I can think of a way to do this, but it is a nasty loop situation, that
 would probably not be good and tie up significant CPU time. Anyone have
 any suggestions on ways to filter view items from a fresh list that I am
 pulling from my Database?

So you have a thing_id and a user_id. How do you mark the user as having
viewed the thing?

I'm thinking a LEFT JOIN is in order here, but need some more info on your
table structure.

---John Holmes...


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[PHP-DB] Pulling an ID list from a DB, then filtering that list againstanother list of ID's

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Babineau
Hey All-

Got an interesting problem! I have a list of ID's, basically  things
people have viewed on my website. When I pull the viewable items from my
database, I need to be able to filter out all the ID's people have
already viewed, so that they only get a list of things they have not
viewed.

I can think of a way to do this, but it is a nasty loop situation, that
would probably not be good and tie up significant CPU time. Anyone have
any suggestions on ways to filter view items from a fresh list that I am
pulling from my Database?

RH9, PHP 4.3.2, MySQL 4.0.14-standard, Apache 2.0.47

Thanks!
Matt


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