Photo Contest voting lookup

Hello,

I have been struggling with this part of the site.

I have a voting site (www.dogpediccontest.com) where people after registering can upload their pets picture and vote for their pet. I was able to get this to work.

I need help with the voting end. I have it set up where the person (friends, family, etc) registers then is taken to a protected page (registrants by email only). Here I need to allow them to see all the photos and names and a button to allow them to vote. They can only vote once per email address, so once they vote they would not be able to see this page.

I have one table (I was out of time so i am only using this now):
users: UserID, UserEmail, UserPassword, UserFirstName, UserLastName, PetName, PetImage, ContestTerms, PetVotes, UserEmailVerified, UserRegistrationDate, UserVerificationCode, UserIP, UserPhone

and votes: VoteID, VoteUserID, PetVotes, petName, VoteDate

My question is; Are the tables set up right? What is the correct SQL statement to allow me to show all the pet names, pictures and allow the registered user to vote?

The site had to go live and I am beyond having a gun to my head, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob

Thanks,
Rob

having read your post a couple of times, i think i see what you are after

if so, i think you would be best served by 3 tables...

tbluser
tblimage
tblvote

tblvote needs to have
voteid as pk
imageid (foreign key to imageid in tblimage)
userid (foreign key to userid in tbluser)

tblimage should have all image info required
tbluser should have all user info required

your voting page would show all images from tblimage.
when the image is chosen, update tblvote with imageid selected and userid currently viewing

Craig thanks! Would I then use an inner join to show the pet image, name, and vote check box on the page that the viewer uses to vote

Rob

i hope i am understanding your objectives correctly, (it's late in the UK)

assuming you are in the 'protected page', you know the userid of the person logged in

on my voting form, i would have a recordset showing the images from tblimages, it doesn't need to be joined to anything, just show all of the pictures.

by selecting a picture, you would then know it's imageid.

posting the form would insert a row into tblvote adding userid and imageid, so you know who has voted and which image they have voted for

I will give it a try. I do not have a lot of sql experience, how do I set up a foreign key?

Rob

don't worry about the foreign key too much.

for example this means that a value for imageid in the voting table should match an imageid value in the image table.

in this way, if you need to produce a recordset to show all pictures, with number of votes for each, you would start by creating a query with an inner join on this field.

also, a value for userid in the voting table should match a userid value in the user table.
by creating a query with an inner join on this field, you could determine, for example, which user voted for which picture.

heres a quick walkthrough as i see it, (I assume you have dataassist, it's not essential , but makes things easier)

On your voting page, add a recordset to show all of the images, (select * from tblimages will do for starters)
add a dataassist repeating table with one image displayed in each 'cell' (<td> </td> tag)
also, within each cell add...
a form with a vote button
a hidden field with imageid as its data source

when you load your page, you should now see all of your images, with a vote button displayed under each image
your page now has a set of repeating forms, one for each image

now add the dataassist insert record server behavior, so that when the vote button is pressed, the imageid from the form's hidden field, along with your userid value, is inserted into tblvote.
if you wish, redirect to a 'thanks for voting page'.

that should sort it.


Hope this doesn't give you too much of a headache. ps sorry, but i probably won't be online again until the weekend.