<?php /* Question2Answer (c) Gideon Greenspan http://www.question2answer.org/ File: qa-include/qa-db-hotness.php Version: See define()s at top of qa-include/qa-base.php Description: Functions for dealing with question hotness in the database This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. More about this license: http://www.question2answer.org/license.php */ if (!defined('QA_VERSION')) { // don't allow this page to be requested directly from browser header('Location: ../'); exit; } function qa_db_hotness_update($firstpostid, $lastpostid=null, $viewincrement=false) /* Recalculate the hotness in the database for posts $firstpostid to $lastpostid (if specified) If $viewincrement is true, also increment the views counter for the post, and include that in the hotness calculation */ { if (qa_to_override(__FUNCTION__)) { $args=func_get_args(); return qa_call_override(__FUNCTION__, $args); } if (qa_should_update_counts()) { if (!isset($lastpostid)) $lastpostid=$firstpostid; $query= "UPDATE ^posts AS x, (SELECT parents.postid, parents.created AS qcreated, COALESCE(MAX(children.created), parents.created) as acreated, COUNT(children.postid) AS acount, parents.netvotes, parents.views FROM ^posts AS parents LEFT JOIN ^posts AS children ON parents.postid=children.parentid AND children.type='A' WHERE parents.postid>=# AND parents.postid<=# AND LEFT(parents.type, 1)='Q' GROUP BY postid) AS a SET x.hotness=(". '((TO_DAYS(a.qcreated)-734138)*86400.0+TIME_TO_SEC(a.qcreated))*# + '. // zero-point is Jan 1, 2010 '((TO_DAYS(a.acreated)-734138)*86400.0+TIME_TO_SEC(a.acreated))*# + '. '(a.acount+0.0)*# + '. '(a.netvotes+0.0)*# + '. '(a.views+0.0+#)*#'. ')'.($viewincrement ? ', x.views=x.views+1, x.lastviewip=INET_ATON($)' : '').' WHERE x.postid=a.postid'; // Additional multiples based on empirical analysis of activity on Q2A meta site to give approx equal influence for all factors $arguments=array( $firstpostid, $lastpostid, qa_opt('hot_weight_q_age'), qa_opt('hot_weight_a_age'), qa_opt('hot_weight_answers')*160000, qa_opt('hot_weight_votes')*160000, $viewincrement ? 1 : 0, qa_opt('hot_weight_views')*4000, ); if ($viewincrement) $arguments[]=qa_remote_ip_address(); qa_db_query_raw(qa_db_apply_sub($query, $arguments)); } } /* Omit PHP closing tag to help avoid accidental output */