MySQL query help please

[Darth Cow]

Thanks for the code, TECK, but I already had figured out a solution . Your code wouldn't work anyways though, besides the fact that I'm not doing in vB, that also doesn't fit my data format . Here is what I ended up doing...

PHP Code:

$hits_query = mysql_query("SELECT SUM(hitscount) AS totalhits FROM hits
WHERE time>" . (time() - 60*60*24*3) . " AND siteid={$site['siteid']}");
$site['hits'] = intval(mysql_result($hits_query, 0)); 


[TECK]

No need to do a SUM since you only want to count the total.

$ourtime = time() - 259200;
$hits_query = mysql_query("
  SELECT COUNT(*) AS totalhits
  FROM hits
  WHERE time>$ourtime AND siteid=$site[siteid]
");

Just to make sure is ANSI compatible...

[Darth Cow]

Actually, I do, because my database is structured so that it updates hits in a batch when an updating script parses a much less stressful flat file that saves sites visited. So "hitscount" is the number of hits to that site within the 15 minutes between the cron job running .

[TECK]

True, it makes sense if you have it set this (better) way.