I have been struggling with this problem for about month.. Have been searching and reading many posts, but still can't figure out, how to make this work..
Basically: I got 2 database tables fun_posts
and fun_post_upvotes
And I want to
SELECT *
FROM fun_posts
ORDER BY (HOTTEST POSTS(MOST UPVOTED THIS WEEK))
This is my latest code, that won't work
SELECT *
FROM fun_posts
ORDER BY (SELECT count(*), image_id, date
FROM fun_post_upvotes
GROUP BY image_id
ORDER BY DATE(date) > (NOW() - INTERVAL 7 DAY) DESC,
count(*) DESC,
date DESC)
If I divide this line into 2 different SELECT
functions, they work. I can select simple posts and I can select upvotes count ordered like I want.
But If I make them into one line like that, I get following error:
#1241 - Operand should contain 1 column(s)
EDIT NR 1:
fun_posts
table fun_post_upvotes
table
Problem with Answer that I checked:
Here, look how posts are ordered in my select
function. (It selects like I want) 10->134->132->2->13
And here with given code (It selects image, but not in that order) 10->122->39->8->110
You can use a join to do this
SELECT fp.*, fpu.`cnt`
FROM fun_posts fp
LEFT JOIN ( SELECT image_id, COUNT(*) AS cnt
FROM fun_post_upvotes
WHERE `date` > (NOW() - INTERVAL 7 day)
GROUP BY image_id
) fpu ON ( fpu.image_id = fp.id )
ORDER BY fpu.cnt DESC, fp.`date` DESC, fp.`id` DESC;
It selects a list from fun_post_upvotes
grouped by image_id and counts the amount of rows. That list is returned to the main query and matches (LEFT JOIN) on fp.id. The query will first show the item with the most upvotes in the past 7 days, than the least. If no upvotes are found, the result will still return them, but at the bottom in no specific order.
You can edit the order by, to obtain the items in the order you like.
Here a sqlfiddle.com