Video Counter dependant on number of plays

[MarlonM]

I am creating a website where various users can upload videos as well as view them. Below is what I have done so far but it updates all the video with the same count and updates the DB with the ID and hits but fails to update the videoid. Anyone have any ideas. 

 

 <?php

 

$getViews = mysql_query("SELECT `hits` FROM `views` WHERE `id` = $video_id");

if(mysql_num_rows($getViews)) {

  $result = mysql_fetch_assoc($getViews);

  $videoViews = $result['hits']+1; 

} else {

  $videoViews = 1;

}

 

 

mysql_query("INSERT INTO `views` (`id`) VALUES ($video_id) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE hits = hits+1");

 

echo 'Total Views: '.number_format($videoViews);

 

?>

 

My DB is called views and the columns within are ID, hits and videoid. 

 

[QuickOldCar]

Are you using upper or lower case for id?

From what I see you only need 2 columns ID and hits, since you seem to be trying to use the $video_id variable as id. If ID is an autoincrement would not work as you expected.

 

ditch the autoincrement on ID if have it and drop the videoid column

$getViews = mysql_query("SELECT `hits` FROM `views` WHERE `ID` = $video_id");

if(mysql_num_rows($getViews)) {

  $result = mysql_fetch_assoc($getViews);
  $videoViews = $result['hits']+1; 
} else {
  $videoViews = 1;
}



mysql_query("INSERT INTO `views` (ID,hits) VALUES ('{$video_id}','1')
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE hits = hits+1");



echo 'Total Views: '.number_format($videoViews);

[QuickOldCar]

Was another post I did about tracking clicks or views plus by dates.

Note it's using mysqli_ functions instead of the deprecated mysql_

 

http://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/296442-unique-click-tracking-using-php/?do=findComment&comment=1512504

Edited June 19, 2015 by QuickOldCar

[MarlonM]

Hi, I gave that a go but it still updates all the videos with the same hit count. 

[QuickOldCar]

Could you post your current code and database structure, also any code how you are implementing this.