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this doesn't exist at the point when the ajax request is made, because they are two different http(s) requests. that's because ALL the code in index.php has already been executed during the initial http(s) request for index.php, by the time the ajax request occurs. for the initial case when the session variable doesn't exist, after you output the javascript code, the php code needs to exit/die without doing anything else (it currently runs to completion.) the ajax request needs to be to index.php, instead of screenDetect.php. the code will then set the session variable and it will be available when the rest of the code in index.php runs.

I fell foul of that this morning. It worked fine yesterday when I posted the query but when I loaded some more data and ran it again after midnight I got nothing. The last date I had was 2025-01-26 so -7 DAY worked fine on the 2nd Feb but not on the 3rd. On the subject of temporary tables, have a look at WITH RECURSIVE. There may be occasions when you want to list, say, total sales for each day last month and show a zero total for days with no sales. You can't just sum, grouping by the dates, as you won't get output if there is no data fora date. You need a table containing all the dates in the month and use a left join. WITH RECURSIVE gives a great way of create such a temporary date table on the fly.

Could be there is no data in the table for the last 7 days. Try "- INTERVAL 1 MONTH"

You don't need a separate table to specify the structure, your board table already contains the structure by virtue of the parentid column. Just needs a recursive function to resolve... include 'db_inc.php' ; $pdo = mdbConnect('jodunno'); // connect to database $res = $pdo->query("SELECT parentID, boardID, title FROM wbb1_1_board ORDER BY parentID, title"); $brds = []; foreach ($res as $r) { $brds[$r['parentID']][] = [ 'id' => $r['boardID'], 'title' => $r['title']]; } // echo '<pre>' . print_r($brds, 1) . '</pre>'; echo "<ul>\n"; outputBoard($brds, 0); echo "</ul>\n"; function outputBoard(&$brds, $parent) { foreach ($brds[$parent] as $b) { echo "<li>{$b['title']}</li>\n"; if (isset($brds[$b['id']])) { // if this is a parent board echo "<ul>\n"; outputBoard($brds, $b['id']); // recursively output the child boards echo "</ul>\n"; } } }

Thank you. You should know that i have a text file of data that you have posted. I always appreciate the wisdom from the top talent here at phpfreaks. I have learned alot from this forum and its top members. I give credit where credit is due. I actually learned how this JOIN is working and i have successfully implemented my own query on the db last night before bed. I'll post the code in a reply to Barry. My point is that i learn from Barry and not simply take code and be on my way. I'm not looking for a free ride, only help when something is above my current level of knowledge. I hope that you have a splendid day, Gizmola.

After about 3 hours of waiting I killed the process as the SQL server never showed a status other than "idle". I think it hit a problem and got itself into an infinite loop doing nothing. To give myself some data to work with, I managed to extact the table structure , the first 3,400 and the last 600 records from the sql file. I could have done all of them but it (thankfully) uses multiple row inserts (1700 at a time) and it takes an age scrolling through the text to find each block's start and end then select the block. There are about 200 such blocks and each takes about 2.5 seconds to load the data - so the whole load should have taken 8-9 minutes. Enough of the excuses. I finally came up with a solution using the post table. The first part (WITH ...) creates a temporary table called "plast" which contains a row for each threadID with the latest date of all the posts for the thread. The main part of the query (SELECT ...) matches the threadid/latest date with the post table to find the matching post and also joins to the thread table to pick uo thread info. Finally, I limit the output to just those dates in the last 7 days. (Apologies for screwing up the text encoding along the way - eg "Jürgen Peters". It's only test data.) WITH plast AS ( SELECT threadID , MAX(time) as latest FROM wbb1_1_post GROUP BY threadID ) SELECT t.threadID , t.topic , p.userID , p.username , p.postid , FROM_UNIXTIME(p.time) AS time , FROM_UNIXTIME(plast.latest) AS latest FROM wbb1_1_post p JOIN wbb1_1_thread t ON p.threadID = t.threadID JOIN plast ON plast.threadid = p.threadid AND plast.latest = p.time WHERE FROM_UNIXTIME(p.time) > CURDATE() - INTERVAL 7 DAY ; +----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------+------------------+--------+---------------------+---------------------+ | threadID | topic | userID | username | postid | time | latest | +----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------+------------------+--------+---------------------+---------------------+ | 131549 | welche Spinne? --> eventuell Lepthyphantes sp. | 5455 | Manfred Zapf | 507256 | 2025-01-26 10:08:19 | 2025-01-26 10:08:19 | | 131698 | Baumwanze | 1397 | zobel | 507259 | 2025-01-26 12:48:43 | 2025-01-26 12:48:43 | | 56659 | Grüne Futterwanze? | 15196 | Christine | 507261 | 2025-01-26 14:57:09 | 2025-01-26 14:57:09 | | 131576 | Kleine schwarze Spinne --> Enoplognatha cf. thoracica | 15395 | Bernd 07 | 507263 | 2025-01-26 16:01:45 | 2025-01-26 16:01:45 | | 131307 | Amaurobius fenestralis? --> bestätigt | 15395 | Bernd 07 | 507264 | 2025-01-26 16:08:09 | 2025-01-26 16:08:09 | | 131701 | Unbekannte Schneckenart | 15395 | Bernd 07 | 507267 | 2025-01-26 16:43:50 | 2025-01-26 16:43:50 | | 131702 | Encyrtidae? | 11406 | JohnEs81 | 507268 | 2025-01-26 17:00:37 | 2025-01-26 17:00:37 | | 131700 | Welche Wanze ist das? --> Arocatus longiceps | 15395 | Bernd 07 | 507272 | 2025-01-26 17:36:02 | 2025-01-26 17:36:02 | | 131699 | Tegenaria --> nein sondern Amaurobius similis/fenestralis | 1999 | Klaus Fritz | 507274 | 2025-01-26 17:48:07 | 2025-01-26 17:48:07 | | 131683 | Grüne Larve -> Geometridae Art | 11406 | JohnEs81 | 507280 | 2025-01-26 20:41:49 | 2025-01-26 20:41:49 | | 131703 | eine Acericerus heydenii? | 1 | Jürgen Peters | 507282 | 2025-01-26 20:45:32 | 2025-01-26 20:45:32 | | 131687 | Zygina nivea? | 15392 | Sascha_N | 507286 | 2025-01-26 21:15:21 | 2025-01-26 21:15:21 | | 131686 | Welcher Schnellkäfer? --> Melanotus sp. | 15395 | Bernd 07 | 507287 | 2025-01-26 21:29:11 | 2025-01-26 21:29:11 | | 131693 | Lispocephala brachialis --> bestätigt | 15800 | Bernd Cogel | 507293 | 2025-01-26 22:06:16 | 2025-01-26 22:06:16 | | 131704 | Cantharis paradoxa? --> Cantharis sp., ein schwarzer, immerhin | 15335 | Simeon Indzhov | 507295 | 2025-01-26 22:29:15 | 2025-01-26 22:29:15 | | 131695 | Peyerimhoffina gracilis? | 15335 | Simeon Indzhov | 507296 | 2025-01-26 22:36:08 | 2025-01-26 22:36:08 | | 131705 | Phytoecia coerulescens? | 1 | Jürgen Peters | 507297 | 2025-01-26 22:52:48 | 2025-01-26 22:52:48 | +----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------+------------------+--------+---------------------+---------------------+ Are you planning on rebuilding the database?

I'm sure he does know that, and we are both motivated by an interest in mentoring and passing along our expertise to people like yourself if we are able. We appreciate the feedback.