Hi everyone,
Trying to figure out exactly how to implement this current project to derive estimates from 1 db to another and stores the estimated value in one of the databases. I currently have, what I think is a pretty hacked version of it and works but does not seemed optimized at all and is pretty darn slow...what i have currently is below:
I have
2 tables in my database: one for previously sold products (approx. 600,000 rows) and one for items not yet for sale (approx. 50,000 rows and growing).
What I would ideally like to do is present the site user with an estimated value/sale price of the items that are not currently for sale based on parameters matching/querying against the database for the previously sold items.
I currently have this working on the fly but since it has to query the database on every page load/item they visit it is quite time consuming in regards to page load time (though I’m sure my query could be optimized quite a bit…)
So, I was playing with the idea of possibly, weekly or bi-monthly, looping through the data and creating estimates for each item and storing the estimated value with in a column with a corresponding “last modified estimate” date to query against.
My problem is that I’m really not sure how to set something up w/ this size to make it as optimized as possible…
Example of how I am currently querying:
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search.php stores my class variables and search parameters and initiates the query and stores the "$count"
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calculate_item_value.php calculates, in php, the results and averages an estimated value base on query results
$previous_start_time = file_get_contents("last-run");
$items = Items::getItems($previous_start_time);
foreach ($items as $item) {
//stores beginning search parameters to be inserted
//and used in queries
$percentSearch = 0.20;
$radius = 0.25;
$yearbuiltrange = 10;
$soldtime = '-4 months';
require("search.php");
//checks if query results is 3 or more....
//if so use these items to calculate estimate
if ($count >= 3) {
//simple calculation in php from the 3 or
//more query items to derive value and
//also Updates Mysql row for estimate value
require("calculate_item_value.php");
}
else {
//increase search parameter ranges
$percentSearch = 0.25;
$radius = 0.5;
$yearbuiltrange = 12;
$soldtime = '-8 months';
require("search.php");
if ($count >= 3) {
require("calculate_item_value.php");
}
else {
$percentSearch = 0.30;
$radius = 0.75;
$yearbuiltrange = 15;
$soldtime = '-2 years';
require("search.php");
if ($count >= 3) {
require("calculate_item_value.php");
}
else echo "Estimate Failed";
}
}
}
How do really large sites handle creating estimates or similar things on their sites and databases? This just seems very VERY slow and un-optimized. Have been thinking that I might be able to use 1 query w/ a broader set of criteria and just use PHP to calculate using the search parameter variables but haven't tried that yet...that is probably next on my list.
