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How would I reset a counter every 7 days? I already have a table with a date created field. I just need to reset a counter every 7 days - say Monday morning at 1am or whatever time sets the new day. It has to be after a week, every week. The other counter can go up to 10 but must reset to 0 after 7 days.

This is a voting system where the logged in person can vote up to 10 times in a week, but no more than 10 times. I have the votecount stored in a field as well as totalvotes. The votecount is the counter that goes up to 10 for each logged user. The username of the voter is also stored to tie them to their user account.

Everything is done and working except for this.

I would rather do this in php if possible, but I am open to mysql queries if there is no other way.

Thanks for any help.

Mike

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There is a very easy way to do this using a MySql myisam table. Store each vote in a table like this...

CREATE TABLE `vote` (
  `username` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `vote_year` year(4) NOT NULL,
  `week_num` tinyint(4) NOT NULL,
  `vote_count` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `time_voted` datetime DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  `voted_for` int(11) DEFAULT NULL COMMENT 'Who/whatever was voted for',
  PRIMARY KEY (`username`,`vote_year`,`week_num`,`vote_count`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

Note the last column of the primary key is the auto-increment column "vote_count". This will make the vote count start again at 1 for each username each week whe you add votes.

mysql> INSERT INTO vote (username, vote_year, week_num, voted_for) VALUES
    -> ('user1', year(curdate()), weekofyear(curdate()), 1),
    -> ('user1', year(curdate()), weekofyear(curdate()), 20),
    -> ('user1', year(curdate()), weekofyear(curdate()), 5),
    -> ('user2', year(curdate()), weekofyear(curdate()), 5),
    -> ('user2', year(curdate()), weekofyear(curdate()), 1),
    -> ('user2', year(curdate()), weekofyear(curdate()), 3);
Query OK, 6 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from vote;
+----------+-----------+----------+------------+---------------------+-----------+
| username | vote_year | week_num | vote_count | time_voted          | voted_for |
+----------+-----------+----------+------------+---------------------+-----------+
| user1    |      2021 |       24 |          1 | 2021-06-16 17:37:56 |         1 |
| user1    |      2021 |       24 |          2 | 2021-06-16 17:37:56 |        20 |
| user1    |      2021 |       24 |          3 | 2021-06-16 17:37:56 |         5 |
| user2    |      2021 |       24 |          1 | 2021-06-16 17:37:56 |         5 |
| user2    |      2021 |       24 |          2 | 2021-06-16 17:37:56 |         1 |
| user2    |      2021 |       24 |          3 | 2021-06-16 17:37:56 |         3 |
+----------+-----------+----------+------------+---------------------+-----------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

To do the insert in PHP

$stmt = $pdo->prepare("INSERT INTO vote (username, vote_year, week_num, voted_for) 
                        VALUES
                        ( ?, year(curdate()), weekofyear(curdate()), ? )
                        ");        
$stmt->execute( [ $username, $votedFor ] );        

Now it doesn't matter how many times a user votes. When you come to counting the votes for each "voted_for" just ignore all records whose vote_count is > 10

SELECT voted_for
     , count(*) as votes
FROM vote
WHERE vote_count <= 10
GROUP BY voted_for
ORDER BY votes DESC

 

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