Earlier I asked this question, which basically asked how to list 10 winners in a table with many winners, according to their points.
This was answered.
Now I'm looking to search for a given winner X in the table, and find out what position he is in, when the table is ordered by points.
For example, if this is the table:
Winners:
NAME:____|__POINTS:
Winner1 | 1241
Winner2 | 1199
Sally | 1000
Winner4 | 900
Winner5 | 889
Winner6 | 700
Winner7 | 667
Jacob | 623
Winner9 | 622
Winner10 | 605
Winner11 | 600
Winner12 | 586
Thomas | 455
Pamela | 434
Winner15 | 411
Winner16 | 410
These are possible inputs and outputs for what I want to do:
Query: "Sally", "Winner12", "Pamela", "Jacob"
Output: 3 12 14 623
How can I do this? Is it possible, using only a MySQL statement? Or do I need PHP as well?
This is the kind of thing I want:
WHEREIS FROM Winners WHERE Name='Sally' LIMIT 1
Ideas?