[development] Ranking in a query

[Nikola Kotur]

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 06:32 -0700, nan wich wrote:

> I have a query that counts comments and all is well with it. But I'd
> like add a ranking column to the display. The problem is that it uses
> tablesort, so the ranking has to be in the query because I don't know
> which column will be used to sort the display. Oh, it is also paged so
> I can't count on the first row being #1 and so on.   Has anyone got an
> idea on how to add a ranking column to the query? (MySql only.) 


Nancy, here's a query that returns a nid, and it's row position:

SELECT @row := @row + 1 as row, n.nid FROM node n, (SELECT @row := 0) r;

You can start from there.

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