I am trying to create a table that logs steps depending on date and the user id. But when I run my code, it happens that I get duplicate rows if a user logs their steps several times a day. I can't have a date with a unique key because that would cause all other users unable to log steps if a any other user has logged steps the same day. So my point is that I want to remove the option of having duplicate rows where user id and date is identical. I have two tables
Table a and table b, and I will refer to them as something.a and something.b
I have a problem with returning a valid row when using $entry = "SELECT * FROM table.a WHERE userid.a = '$user_id.b' AND date=NOW()"
I want to use it as a conditional to decide to either UPDATE
or INSERT INTO
table.a. I have user_id.b
from an previous query which works as it is, so I will leave that as it is for now.
Here is how I query the database:
$entry_result = mysqli_query($conn, $entry);
Which is used here:
if (mysqli_num_rows($entry_result) > 0){
$conn->query("UPDATE steplogger SET steps='$steps' WHERE userid='$user_id' AND date=NOW()");
} else {
$conn->query("UPDATE users SET totalsteps = totalsteps + ('$steps') WHERE username = '$user'");
$conn->query("INSERT INTO steplogger (steps, userid, date) VALUES ('$steps', '$user_id', NOW())");
}
Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?
PS. When I echo $entry_result
I get a mysqli object.