High score position

[pauberson]

Hi,

I want to know the position of a entry in a highscore table but the only way i can think of doing this is "SELECT * from entries ORDER BY score DESC" and then loop though all the entries in php until i find the record i want.

It seems like there ought to be a better way to do this especially as the number of records increases. Can you find this position information directly in the SQL or is there a php function that will be better than going through all the records?

Thanks,
Pascal.

[DoppyNL]

Once you know the score of the entry you can determine its "rank" by selecting all records wich have a better score.
The number of records that comply with that query are in front of that score.

example:
rank..score
1..10
2..8
3..5
3..5
3..5
6..3
7..2
7..2

When you want to know the position of score "5", you find out that there are 2 records in front of that, 2 + 1 = 3 -> position 3.

I think you can build the query yourself.

Greetz Daan

[pauberson]

Great, exactly what i was after.

Thanks,
Pascal.