I'm new to building databases and I'm trying to do a JOIN based on a having three database tables.
Table A = ID, Name, etc
Table B = ID, Name, etc
Table C = ID, TableAId, TableBId
How can I JOIN these tables with query builder methods? I'm trying to make as few requests as possible, but am getting stumped on how it should all be written without doing three separate calls.
$this->db->select('*');
$this->db->from('TableA AS A');// I use aliasing make joins easier
$this->db->join('TableC AS C', 'A.ID = C.TableAId', 'INNER');
$this->db->join('TableB AS B', 'B.ID = C.TableBId', 'INNER');
$result = $this->db->get();
The join function works like this: join('TableName', 'ON condition', 'Type of join');
The equivilent sql:
SELECT *
FROM TableA AS A
INNER JOIN TableC AS C
ON C.TableAId = A.ID
INNER JOIN TableB AS B
ON B.ID = C.ID
I found that writing the SQL first, testing it, then converting to the active record style minimizes error.
$this->db->select('*');
$this->db->from('blogs');
$this->db->join('comments', 'comments.id = blogs.id');
$this->db->join('authors', 'authors.id = comments.author_id');
hopefully you get my example.
Just add another $this->db->join();
For complex queries you might be better off looking at an ORM such as doctrine
$this->db->select('*');
$this->db->from('table1');
$this->db->join('table2','table1.id=table2.id');
$this->db->join('table3','table2.id=table3.id');
$this->db->join('table4','table3.id=table4.id');
$this->db->join('table5','table5.id=table4.id');
$this->db->where('table5.id',$this->session->userdata('id'));//getting value from session and match the id of table5 and then show data
$data=$this->db->get()->result();//all data store in $data variable
if you want a flexible query you could use:
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/results.html
which utilizes the following syntax $query = $this->db->query('SELECT * FROM my_table');
here is the query:
SELECT a.name as namea ,b.name as nameb FROM tablec c
JOIN tablea a ON a.ID = c.ID
JOIN tableb b ON b.ID = c.ID
you may want to read more about joins here
then go through your results in such a way:
$query = $this->db->query("YOUR QUERY");
foreach ($query->result_array() as $row)
{
echo $row['namea'];
echo $row['nameb'];
}
