How can i get a mysql common field name that have highest vivit ?

assuming your table is called table.....

This would return the entry with the most visits.
     Select top 1 * from table order by visit  ;

If you wanted the one with 8 visits only.
     Select Top 1 * from table where visit = 8 order by visit ;

If you wanted _all_ results with 8 visits.
     Select * from table where visit = 8 order by visit ;

if your id key is unique, than
SELECT a.section,SUM(b.visit) FROM table AS a, table AS b WHERE a.id=b.id GROUP BY a.section;

of course - this will return all sections, lets order them:
SELECT a.section,SUM(b.visit) AS s
FROM yourtable AS a, yourtable AS b
WHERE a.id=b.id
GROUP BY a.section
ORDER BY s DESC;

Sorry but didn't get what a and what b ?

Let explain more what i need to prevent any misunderstanding.


What i need a result of what  section row results  (having same name ) have higher  total of visits
where here we have two results with different name featured products and near products so if we do calculate manually the featured products have more visits where it we calculate the visits all together it gives 8


Hope this get the issue more clear so what i need is a function or mysql command that retrieve this result

ok how can i gather the section name that have higher visits and it related visits total ?

a and b are aliases for "yourtable", s is an alias for SUM(b.visit). This query will
1. select all pairs (a.section,sum(b.visit)) where a.id=b.id
so it will be in your case
featured products 8
featured products 8
featured products 8
featured products 8
featured products 8
news products 2
2. then group this results by section, so you get
featured products 8
news products 2
3. then order this recordset descending by s (i.e. sum(visit)), giving at last
featured products 8
news products 2

>> how can i gather the section name that have higher visits and it related visits total ?

Did you try my suggestion?

all you gave cxr is a mysql_query so i am not sure what to do next so whoever willing to help please write a full coded solution with comment on the lign that need to be clarified that will help much better as i am knew into this thanks in advance.

cxr: I know that there is no need for self join, but this way it's easier to explain.

What you want to do if you will have two or more sections with equal and highest number of visits?

what do you mean can you please give example .

>> all you gave cxr is a mysql_query

You asked for "either mysql query or a php function"...?

Below it is as a function. Call it like this:

$section = SectionWithMostVisits();

If you want it to return both the section name and the visit count, change the last line into this:

return array($row['section'],$row['total_visits']);

...and call it like this:

list($section,$visits) = SectionWithMostVisits();

function SectionWithMostVisits() {
  $sql = "select section,sum(visits) as total_visits
from TableName
group by section
order by total_visits desc
limit 1";
  $res = mysql_query($sql);
  if(!$res) die(mysql_error());
  $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
  return $row['section'];
}

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thanks CXR so if i echo $row['visit'] will i get the total number of visits ! as i my result need to be

for example


the highest surfed is featured products section  with 8 visits

See php code showing all results in a table.

<?php
 
$result = mysql_query("SELECT a.section,SUM(b.visit) AS s FROM yourtable AS a, yourtable AS b WHERE a.id=b.id GROUP BY a.section ORDER BY s DESC;");
 
?> <table> <?php
 
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_NUM)) {
    echo "<tr><td>".$row[0]."</td><td>".$row[1]."</td></tr>
}
 
?>
</table>

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missed double quote

<?php
 
$result = mysql_query("SELECT a.section,SUM(b.visit) AS s FROM yourtable AS a, yourtable AS b WHERE a.id=b.id GROUP BY a.section ORDER BY s DESC;");
 
?> <table> <?php
 
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_NUM)) {
    echo "<tr><td>".$row[0]."</td><td>".$row[1]."</td></tr>";
}
 
?>
</table>

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>> if i echo $row['visit'] will i get the total number of visits

Not quite. The function (with the modification) returns an array with two items. Call it like this:

list($section,$visits) = SectionWithMostVisits();

...then the variables $section and $visits will contain the section name and the visit count, respectively.

Thanks jfromanski and cxr for your help a question for jfromanski so if i got two section that have different name but have same visits number so what i will get do i get in looping while two results ?

Sorry i am giving your hard times but didn't get what you meant ! is that i gives by asc order begining by highest visits to the lowest ! or just the highest beside you don't reply my question if there section have same igher visits do they will be arrayed and listed or only one ! please explain

All sections with the highest number of visits will be displayed. For the data as below you get:
other products      4
featured products 4      

id      refer                                                section                   date             visit  country             c
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2       product/159/electric-oud-eq             other products       03-07-2009  1      Germany              no
3       product/559/trsamples-korg-pa800        featured products       03-07-2009  2    Germany                no
4       product/446/universal-bc                featured products       03-07-2009  2    Germany                no
5       product/559/trsamples-korg-pa800        other products       03-07-2009  1     United States        no
6       product/559/trsamples-korg-pa800        other products       03-07-2009  2     Australia             no
7       product/159/electric-oud-eq             news products   04-07-2009  2      United States        no

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