Re: Ranking in MySQL

David, I have a MySQL table called images, each with a rating from 1-10. The column is a decimal(10,2). For simplicity's sake, let's say i have the following: CREATE TABLE images ( image_id int not null auto_increment, image_path varchar(255) not null, rating decimal(10,2) not null, primary key(image_id) ); What I'm looking to do is be able to pull from the database the ranked position each image is in. I.e. "this image is ranked 70 out of 121" =SQL has no ranking method. However you can (1) select data/rating values out from the table, (2) count how many rows/ratings appear in the table, (3) sequence the result set by rating to rank them. =SELECT data from the table and have it sequenced according to the value in rating: SELECT ... ORDER BY rating DESC; =the DESC is because ranking usually means highest-first! =When the record/resultset hits PHP, you can use MYSQL_NUM_ROWS() to find the number of rows returned from the database - and answer the "this image is ranked ... out of ???" question. =Now you can run a FOR loop, to extract each row from the result set (from 1 to 'num_rows'). Each cycle through the loop, the for loop counter will answer the "this image is ranked ??? out of ..." question. =Ok? =dn