Need help with a table in PHP - sorting by ID

[nemp]

Hello! I'm currently trying to make my own highscore to the mmo game Tibia (www.tibia.com) and gather all the player's levels and sort them into a table.

I have found out how to sort them by the level, but here's my problem: every player should have a rank. And I want the rank to be assigned to the highest level.

 

For example if we have 5 players.

Player 1 = Level 40

Player 2 = Level 90

Player 3 = Level 100

Player 4 = Level 50

Player 5 = Level 20

 

And it would assign the ranks like this:

Rank 1 = Player 3

Rank 2 = Player 2

Rank 3 = Player 4

Rank 4 = Player 1

Rank 5 = Player 5

 

But I can't find out how to sort them by Rank & Level.

Does it have to do with the database or something? I'm really new at this and I really need help.

 

The highest level should have the highest rank automatically. Where highest rank = 1, and it goes on up to 1000.

So a list of the top 1000 levels should be displayed on my website.

 

Currently I'm just trying out to see an example list of 5 players that I put into the database.

 

Here's my lines of codes to display them:

<?php
		$result = mysql_query("SELECT rank, name, level, vocation, server FROM topboard ORDER BY level DESC LIMIT 0, 1000");
		while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC) or die(mysql_error()))
		{

		echo "<tr>";
		echo "<td size='10%'>" . $row['rank'] . "</td>";
		echo "<td size='50%'>" . $row['name'] . "</td>";
		echo "<td size='10%'>" . $row['level'] . "</td>";
		echo "<td size='10%''>" . $row['vocation'] . "</td>";
		echo "<td size='20%'>" . $row['server'] . "</td>";
		echo "</tr>";
		}
	echo "</table>";
	?>

 

Here's a screenshot showing what it looks like right now:

 

 

 

[requinix]

Don't use $row['rank'] and just count it out yourself.

$rank = 1;

// while {

    // print everything using $rank as the rank


    $rank++;

// }

[AyKay47]

Adding to what requinix posted, it looks like you are using the `rank` column as a unique index when it should not be (as requinix stated above it does not belong in the table at all).

Instead use that field as a unique identifier of each user in the table and name it something generic like `ID`.

[nemp]

So I should remove rank from the database as well or what?

And where should I put it in the code? Could you add it to the code I have above? I'm really new at this.

 

I think it would be:

 

       <?php
		$result = mysql_query("SELECT rank, name, level, vocation, server FROM topboard ORDER BY level DESC LIMIT 0, 1000");
                $rank = 1;

		while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC) or die(mysql_error()))
		{
		echo "<tr>";
		echo "<td size='10%'>" . $rank . "</td>";
		echo "<td size='50%'>" . $row['name'] . "</td>";
		echo "<td size='10%'>" . $row['level'] . "</td>";
		echo "<td size='10%''>" . $row['vocation'] . "</td>";
		echo "<td size='20%'>" . $row['server'] . "</td>";
		echo "</tr>";

                $rank++;
		}
	echo "</table>";
	?>

[requinix]

Looks right to me.

So I should remove rank from the database as well or what?

Depends. What is it supposed to mean? What is it used for and where does it come from?