I have a mysql table with the following data in it:

user_id score
1234 28
4654 -15
5986 15
3657 10

If i have PHP select the score column for user 5986 how could i then have PHP calculate the next highest score in the MySQL table ?

Use this query. Replace 15 with the actual score from your user.

select score from table where score > 15 order by score asc limit 1
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