count & show amount of records of a mysql table via php

[gf05856]

Dear,

I am looking for a php script that gives me the following output based on the amount of records in a particular mysql table:

Fixed output table with 2 columns, 1 column with the numbers 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 .... 1.073.741.824 and a second column that should be filled out with a color based on the amount of records in the mysql table ...

Like you see below there are 7 records in the database ( the | should be replaced by a color).  If you have any ideas on how to visualise this in a better way, then please be my guest! Also the total amount should be show as an amount like .... Total users: 123456

I probably should also consider the fact that when I have 10.000 hits a day on this site that this script is not run 10.000 times back and forward to the database ... but once a day ... and stored.

records    column to fill up

2            |||||||||||||||
4            |||||||||||||||
8            |||||||||||||
16
32
64
128
256
512
1.024
2.048
4.096
8.192
........

[hitman6003]

[code]<?php
$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table";

$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
$count = mysql_result($result, 0);

echo '
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Number</th>
<th>&nbsp;</th>
</tr>';
for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) {
$n = pow(2, $i);

echo '
<tr>
<td>' . $n . '</td>';

if ($count >= $n) {
echo '
<td style="background-color: red;">&nbsp;</td>';
} else {
echo '
<td>&nbsp;</td>';
}

echo '
</tr>';
}

echo '
</table>';
?>[/code]

[gf05856]

Thanks,

It works very nicely.

I can certainly use it as a basis and adjust it to my needs.

For writing this myself ... it would have taken me .... 1.073.741.824 seconds

Thanks again.