An achievement system like here on stackoverflow in php?

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Published on 2010-04-08T14:27:15Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 14:43 UTC
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Conceptually speaking how would one go about writing an achievement system for a website using PHP and MySQL?

Is the only real way of doing it is to constantly do MySQL queries to test for achievements and such?

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