HELP info site

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by nicky s, Dec 12, 2008.

  1. #1
    i want to make a site that shows the top 10 members with the most post , most friends and most pictures so it looks somthing lik this

    top 10 members with most post
    1 member name
    2 member name
    3 member name
    4 member name
    5 member name
    .. ect

    top 10 members with most friends
    1 member name
    2 member name
    3 member name
    4 member name
    5 member name
    .. ect

    then the same for most pictures

    but i dont have a clue how to do it

    the site the info is coming from is www.connectkent.com

    also i want it to updat itself

    cheers nicky s
     
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    Silver89 Notable Member

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    You'd need to use the mysql database the site uses, you then perform sql queries in php as follows:

    
    <?
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM members ORDER BY posts DESC");
    
    	while($row = mysql_fetch_row($query ))
    	{
    ?>
    
    <li><?=$row[0]?></li><br />
    
    <?
        }
    <?
    
    PHP:
     
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    nicky s Peon

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    any way i can find out the databases with out being able to get on the server ??
     
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    No, you need the usernames and password to connect to the database.
     
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