Hi all,
Thanks for your fast answer to my last question!
Here's one more problem I commonly deal with.
There are cases when I need to insert the row only if such a row
doesn't exist, otherwise I need either to update the row or to do
nothing, just skip the query.
The common case is the rating increment/decrement. I have the + and -
links which are AJAX. So I need to prevent fast multiple clicking and
over-increasing or over-decreasing the rating of the blog entry.
Here's what I'm doing, in a simplified form (assume all of the numbers
are PHP variables):
"SELECT `Id` FROM `Votes` WHERE `EntryId`='12345' AND `UserId`='789'";
then I'm checking if the user has already clicked a link:
if (mysql_num_rows()==0) {
"INSERT INTO `Votes` SET `EntryId`='12345', `UserId`='789'";
} else {
// do nothing
}

And here is the question (at last!):
How can I MySql'ly check whether a vote does exist and if it does,
then insert the row, else either do nothing or update several columns?
I assume I can't use ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE because I have no unique
keys...
Hope you understood my problem).
Thanks!



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