My question is rather complex, but I thought I should give it a try.
In short, I want to insert a row with a slug (short string with alphas and a dash: this-is-a-slug). The problem is that slug is a unique key and there might be duplicates.
When there is a duplicate it should be inserted with a modified slug, like with a suffix: this-is-a-slug-1, if that fails increase the suffix: this-is-a-slug-2.
Here's the tricky part, it should be accomplished in MySQL (no PHP involved) and preferably in a INSERT statement (no variables, procedures etc.)
I've tried a simple solution like so:
INSERT INTO table (slug) VALUES(IF((SELECT COUNT(slug) FROM table WHERE slug = 'this-is-a-slug') > 0, 'this-is-a-slug-1', 'this-is-a-slug');
This should insert this-is-a-slug-1 if this-is-a-slug exists, or this-is-a-slug otherwise.
Expectedly, however, this spawns an error telling me that I cannot you a FROM statement in an UPDATE statement, or something like that.
That's the problem, hope anyone can say something about it.
P.S.: This is being used in a really heave RSS news update procedure, in which I can easily check the slug in the db with php and then modify it, but that doubles the time of my script :|, so I thought I could make it hard for mysql rather than php.
解决方案
You could create a trigger that changes the value of NEW.slug before inserting it.
drop trigger if exists changeSlug;
delimiter |
CREATE TRIGGER changeSlug BEFORE INSERT ON slugs
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
declare original_slug varchar(255);
declare slug_counter int;
set original_slug = new.slug;
set slug_counter = 1;
while exists (select true from slugs where slug = new.slug) do
set new.slug = concat(original_slug, '-', slug_counter);
set slug_counter = slug_counter + 1;
end while;
END;
|
delimiter ;
And this would be the results
mysql> insert into slugs values ("dude");
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> insert into slugs values ("dude");
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> insert into slugs values ("dude");
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from slugs;
+--------+
| slug |
+--------+
| dude |
| dude-1 |
| dude-2 |
+--------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)