PHP - Inner Join Slowing Me Down?

I'm an amateur PHP/mySQL person, trying to learn some more things, and I've hit a snag trying to do something I haven't done before.

Okay, here's what I'm trying to do. I have 3 tables:

Items (which includes `id` as the primary key) and a TON of information about each item.
Shop (which includes `id` as the primary key) and shop name and location.
Sale which has shop_id and item_id.

So, what I'm trying to do is have a form where someone can input in an item name and a shop name and have that item then added to the shop. This is where the Sale table comes into play too, as that's going to house each of the items and what shop it's in.

I currently have the following queries:


       $query5 = $db->execute("SELECT id FROM items LEFT JOIN sale ON items.id=sale.item_id");
       $query6 = $db->execute("SELECT id FROM shop LEFT JOIN sale ON shop.id=sale.shop_id");


I have the following form:


        if ($name == "") { $errors++; $errorlist .= "Name is required.<br />"; }
        if ($location == "" ) { $errors++; $errorlist .= "Location is required.<br />"; }
if (!isitem($itemname)) die("That item does not exist."); }

        if ($errors == 0) { 
            $query = doquery("INSERT INTO `sale` SET `item_id`=`$item`");
            admindisplay("New Item Added.","Add Items");

$page = <<<END

<b><u>Add Item</u></b><br /><br />
<form action="create_shop.php?do=additem" method="post">
<table width="90%">
<tr><td width="20%">Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="itemname" size="30" maxlength="255" value="" />**Be sure the item is already in the database and matches it IDENTICALLY.</td></tr>
<tr><td width="20%">Location:</td><td><input type="text" name="location" size="30" maxlength="55" value="" /><br /><span class="small">Where is the item obtained (unique shop name, please!)</span></td></tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" />
</form>


What next steps do I need to take? Am I even on the right path?

Thanks for any and all help anyone provides!! I really appreciate it!

First off Please bear with me. I am newbie.

Here is a table name 'Employes' and has following Columns.
ID(PK) | FirstName | LastName | SecurityLicence | CrowdLicence | DriversLicence | Password |

And through form all the values are assigned to these columns and user gets registered.
I have done it using this code and its working fine.
Code: [Select]
<?php
session_name('YourVisitID');
session_start();
if(!isset($_SESSION['FirstName']))
        {
                header("Location: http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . "/index.php");
                exit();
        }
else
{
$page_title = 'Register';
include('templates/header.inc');
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
        require_once('mysql_connect.php');
        // connect to the db
        
        //Create a function for escaping the data.
        function escape_data($data)
        {
                global $con; // need connection
                if(ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc'))
                {
                        $data = stripslashes($data);
                }
                return mysql_real_escape_string($data, $con);
        }
        $message = NULL;
        if(empty($_POST['firstName']))
        {
                $fn = FALSE;
                $message .= '<p>you forgot to enter your first name!</p>';
        }
        else
        {
                $fn = escape_data($_POST['firstName']);
        }
        
        if(empty($_POST['lastName']))
        {
                $ln = FALSE;
                $message .= '<p>You forgot to enter your last name!</p>';
        }
        else
        {
                $ln = escape_data($_POST['lastName']);
        }
        if(empty($_POST['licenceId']))
        {
                $li = FALSE;
                $message .='<p>You Forgot enter your Security Officer Licence Number!</p>';
        }
        else
        {
                $li = escape_data($_POST['licenceId']);
        }
        if(empty($_POST['crowdLicenceNo']))
        {
                $cln = FALSE;
                $message .='<p>You Forgot to enter your Crowd Controller Licence Number!</p>';
        }
        else
        {
                $cln = escape_data($_POST['crowdLicenceNo']);
        }
        if(empty($_POST['driverLicenceNo']))
        {
                $dln = FALSE;
                $message .='<p>You forgot to enter your Driving Licence Number!</p>';
        }
        else
        {
                $dln = escape_data($_POST['driverLicenceNo']);
        }
        if(empty($_POST['password']))
        {
                $p = FALSE;
                $message .='<p>You forgot to enter your password!</p>';
        }
        else
        {
                        if($_POST['password'] == $_POST['password2'])
                                {
                                        $p = escape_data($_POST['password']);
                                }
                        else
                                {
                                        $p = FALSE;
                                        $message .='<p>Your password did not match the confirmed password</p>';
                                }
        }
        if($fn && $ln && $li && $cln && $dln && $p)
        {
                                
                $query = "SELECT ID FROM Employes WHERE SecurityLicence='$li'";
                $result = @mysql_query($query);
                if(mysql_num_rows($result) == 0)
                { 
                
                
                $query = "INSERT INTO Employes (FirstName, LastName, SecurityLicence, CrowdLicence, Driverslicence, Password)
                VALUES ('$fn', '$ln', '$li', '$cln', '$dln', PASSWORD('$p'))";
                $result = @mysql_query($query);
                        if($result)
                                {
                                        echo '<p>You have been registered</p>';
                
                                }
                        else
                        {
                                $message = '<p>We apologise there is a system error.</p><p>' . mysql_error(). '</p>';
                        }
                } 
                else 
                {
                        $message = '<p>That Security Licence is already registered</p>';
                }
                        mysql_close();
        }
        else
        {
                $message .='<p>Please try again</p>';
        }
}

//print the message if there is one
if (isset($message))
{
        echo '<font color="red">', $message, '</font>';
}
}
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
function validate_form()
{
        var f = document.forms["regForm"]["firstName"].value;
                if(f==null || f=="")
                        {
                                alert("First Name must be filled out");
                                return false;
                        }
        var l = document.forms["regForm"]["lastName"].value;
                if(l==null || l=="")
                        {
                                alert("Last Name must be filled out");
                                return false;
                        }
        var sl = document.forms["regForm"]["licenceId"].value;
        var s = /^\d{5,}$/g.test(sl);
        var sll = sl.length;
                if(s==false)
                        {
                                alert("Security Licence No must be filled out in digits");
                                return false;
                        }
                else if(sll>=7)
                        {
                                alert("Invalid Security Licence No");
                                return false;
                        }
        var csl = document.forms["regForm"]["crowdLicenceNo"].value;
        var k = /^\d{5,}$/g.test(csl);
        var csll = csl.length;
                if(k==false)
                        {
                                alert("Crowd Controller Licence No must be filled out in digits");
                                return false;
                        }
                else if(csll>=7)
                        {
                                alert("Invalid Crowd Controller Licence No");
                                return false;
                        }
        var d = document.forms["regForm"]["driverLicenceNo"].value;
        var v = /^\d{6,}$/g.test(d);
        var dl = d.length;
                if(v==false)
                        {
                                alert("Driver's Licence No must be filled out in digits");
                                return false;
                        }
                else if(dl>=11)
                        {
                                alert("Invalid Driver's Licence No");
                                return false;
                        }
       
}
</script>


<h3>Employment Registration Form</h3>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" name="regForm" method="post" onsubmit="return validate_form()">
<fieldset>
<legend>Enter informations in the form below</legend>
<table>
<tr><th>First Name:</th><td><input type="text" name="firstName" /></td></tr>
<tr><th>Last Name:</th><td><input type="text" name="lastName" /></td></tr>
<tr><th>SO Licence No:</th><td><input type="text" name="licenceId" size="5" /></td></tr>
<tr><th>CC Licence No:</th><td><input type="text" name="crowdLicenceNo" size="5" /></td></tr>
<tr><th>Driver's Licence No:</th><td><input type="text" name="driverLicenceNo" size="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><th>Create Password:</th><td><input type="password" name="password" size="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><th>Confirm Password:</th><td><input type="password" name="password2" size="10" /></td></tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Register" />
<input type="reset" value="Reset" />
</fieldset>   
</form>

<?php
include('templates/footer.inc'); 
?>
 

Here is another Table "Jobs", with the following columns.
JobID(PK) | ID(FK) | JobDate | JobStart | JobFinish | JobLocation | RequestedBy |

For Example I am the owner of the company and want to assign jobs to my registerd workers using a form.
I assign JobDate=12/12/12 JobStart=1900 JobFinish=2300 JobLocation=Perth Requestedby=John. And I do it using form. JobID will be incremented automatically.
Now what i dont understand is how do I assign ID(FK) to it?? I am newbie this question may sound stupid to many of you but hey please help.
Or should I replace ID(FK) with the SecurityLicence of the worker, Like this
JobID(PK) |ToSecurityLicence | JobDate | JobStart | JobFinish | JobLocation | RequestedBy |

What I want is when the workers signs in He should see the job assigned to him. Can I do it using inner join??? if so how to right PHP code for comparing these two tables???
I am way too much confused.

Too many of you I have made a fool of myself asking this question. But I believe a person who doesnt ask the question is fool foreva.

If somebody could Help I would really really aprreciate it.

Thanks.

Im currently working on a new feature called 'Request Player'. Basically what this does is allows managers to request players within their club for a upcoming fixture. There a multiple teams within a club (Senior As, Senior Bs, Colts U21s). Each team is controlled by a manager. And then they can add players as they need.

Anyway, I'm having problems with the sql JOIN.

I have currently got this:

$check = "SELECT u.* FROM users AS u LEFT JOIN requests AS r ON (u.id = r.player_id) WHERE (u.id = r.player_id)";


I have got two tables.

users - all the managers and players.
requests - all the requests the managers make to other teams within their club.

In the request table i have got this:

id
player_id - the players that has been requested.
fixture_id - the fixture the manager wants to have that player for.
accepted - if he has been accepted or not. This comes later on.

At the moment i have got it working so that it inserts this data, although the code is working but i want to have a mysql query that checks if a manager has any incoming requests from other teams within the club. BUT only request that has been made to his team....

Could someone please help me out?

I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this if I'm doing it right with my for loop. With how many numAnswers there are for the selected poll its going to put the div with the label and text box for each of those but its giong to go and tie in each of those pollAnswers with what ID of the pollAnswer to the pollAnswer table.


Code: [Select]
$pollsQuery = "
    SELECT
        polls.question,
        polls.statusID,
        polls.numAnswers,
        DATE_FORMAT(polls.dateExpires, '%m/%d/%Y') AS dateExpires
    FROM
        polls
    WHERE
        polls.ID = '" . $pollID . "'";
$pollsResult = mysqli_query ( $dbc, $pollsQuery ); // Run The Query
$row = mysqli_fetch_array ( $pollsResult, MYSQL_ASSOC );

$pollAnswers = "
    SELECT
        pollAnswers.ID,
        pollAnswers.answer
    FROM
        pollAnswers
    WHERE
        pollAnswers.pollID = '" . $pollID . "'";
$pollAnswersResult = mysqli_query ( $dbc, $pollAnswers ); // Run The Query

Code: [Select]
<fieldset class="answerLeg">
        <legend>Edit Poll Answers</legend>
        <?php for ( $j = 0; $j <= $numAnswers; $j++) { ?>
            <div class="field required answers">
                <label for="answer<?php $j?>">Answer <?php $j?></label><input type="text" class="text" name="answer<?php $j?>" id="answer<?php $j?>" title="Answer <?php $j?>"/>
                <span class="required-icon tooltip" title="Required field - This field is required, it cannot be blank, and must contain something that is different from emptyness in order to be filled in. ">Required</span>     
            </div>
        <?php } ?>
    </fieldset>

I'm trying to pull from my database every spell or attack that is equal to `All`, but it doesn't seem to be working. All it is doing is pulling all the spells, regardless of class = `All`, and also 0 of the attacks. It should be producing a single attack that is = to `All` as no spells are = `All`.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! (This is my first attempt at a JOIN statement...)


$query = "SELECT attacks.id, attacks.name, attacks.price, attacks.class, attacks.descript, spells.id, spells.name, spells.price, spells.class, spells.descript ".
"FROM attacks, spells ".
"WHERE attacks.class = 'All' || spells.class = 'All' order by attacks.name, spells.name asc";

Hello guys. Thanks a lot for any help with this. My problem is that I'm trying to use MAX to get the last item in the portafolio table. This is my query:

$result = $db->prepare( "SELECT * FROM portafolio INNER JOIN imagenes ON imagenes.work = portafolio.idp WHERE work = ? ORDER BY iid DESC);
$result->execute(array($_GET['work']));

The main idea is not use $_GET['work'], because i want to display the last work (with their respective images) in my portafolio in the main page, so im not passing any variable by url.  

Hi guys,

Would like to check if I have done my INNER JOIN function correctly, as I have received and an error msg

Warning: mysqli_error() expects exactly 1 parameter, 0 given in D:\inetpub\vhosts\111.com\httpdocs\111.com\registration3.php on line 598.

Thanks


<?php
   $dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost', '111', '111', '111')
   or die(mysqli_error());
   $query = "SELECT sl.subject_level_id, sl.level_id, sl.subject_id, tl.name AS level_name, ts.name AS subject_name " .
    "FROM tutor_subject_level AS sl " .
    "INNER JOIN tutor_level AS tl USING (level_id) " .
    "INNER JOIN tutor_subject AS ts USING (subject_id) ";
   $sql = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
   
   echo'<table><tr>'; // Start your table outside the loop... and your first row
   $count = 0; // Start your counter
      while($data = mysqli_fetch_array($sql)) {
         /*    Check to see whether or not this is a *new* row
            If it is, then end the previous and start the next and restart the counter.
         */
         if ($count % 5 == 0) {
            echo "</tr><tr>"; $count = 0;
         }
         echo '<td><input name="subject_level[]" type="checkbox" id="'.$data['subject_level_id'].'" value="'.$data['subject_level_id'].'"/>';
         echo '<label for="'.$data['subject_name'].'">'.$data['subject_name'].'</label></td>';
         $count++; //Increment the count
      }
   echo '</tr></table><br/><br/>'; //Close your last row and your table, outside the loop
   
?>


Wilson

Hi All, hopefully someone can lend me some insight with a problem I'm stuck with.

What I have is two tables.

TABLE: investmentOfferings
   id:            Unique identifier
   class:         Class of offering (A, or AA)
   year:         Year of offering
   name:         Friendly name of offering
   units:         Amount of units added in this offering
   dollarPerUnit:   Dollar value of one unit in this offering
   warrant:      Boolean for warrant or no (0=no 1=yes)

TABLE: actualInvestments
   id:          Unique identifier
   investor:      Identifies investor by referencing investors>id
   dollarAmount:   Dollar amount invested in this offering
   class:      Identifies class by referencing investmentOfferings>id

The structure of the application is so. investmentOfferings creates 4 fundraisers. Each year a new one. The actualInvestments table is the investment contributed per offering. Essentially what I need to do is to create a report, per investor(investors have a third separate table) that shows the amount invested per offering. The kicker being: not every investor will invest every offering, but I still needs to show a 0 dollar amount. I understand that I could create separate 0 dollar  investments for each investor, but that seems impractical. Especially where there will be more offerings once I'm finished working on this. In terms of the report, here's what I'm doing to output the data to a table.

Code: [Select]
<?php do {?>
  <tr>
    <td><?php echo $row_offerings['name']?></td>
    <td><?php echo $row_offerings['dollarAmount'];?></td>
<?php while ($row_offerings = mysql_fetch_assoc($offerings)); ?>
This creates a new column in the table for each part of my array. The issue I think is in my query.
Code: [Select]
"SELECT * FROM actualinvestments AS a RIGHT JOIN investmentofferings AS i ON i.id=a.offering WHERE class='AA' AND investor=" . $investorID . " OR investor IS NULL"Ive tried variations on this, but cannot seem to find anything that will produce currently entered investments, and placeholders for offerings with no investments. Could anyone steer me in the right direction? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to join these 2 tables below, but its not working, any ideas where i am going wrong??

<?php
require("../include/mysqldb.php");
$con = mysql_connect("$dbhost","$dbuser","$dbpass");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("$dbame", $con);



$result = "SELECT *
Reg_Profile_public.pref, Search_profiles_up.search_small_image
FROM
Search_profiles_up
INNER JOIN
Reg_Profile_public_Sex
ON
Search_profiles_up.UIN=Reg_Profile_public.UIN
WHERE
UIN='803272125132009'";

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo $row['search_small_image'];
    echo $row['pref'];
}



?>

I need to get the friends password and insert it into the table so the friend can delete it later can some one help me do a table join
<?php
//include the connect script
include "../../../../connect.php";

//Post variables from flash
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$status = $_POST['status'];
$friend = $_POST['friend'];

$username = stripslashes($username);
$password = stripslashes($password);
$status = stripslashes($status);
$friend = stripslashes($friend);
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($username);
$password = mysql_real_escape_string($password);
$status = mysql_real_escape_string($status);
$friend = mysql_real_escape_string($friend);

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user_declined_list  WHERE username = '$username' and password = '$password' and friend = '$friend' and status ='$status'");
$rows = mysql_num_rows($sql);
$your_username=$rows['username'];



if($rows > 0)
{
echo "&msgTextFriendShipRejected= RESEND NEW FRIEND REQUEST SUCCESSFULLY!";

// ok they are now our friend but we are not thier friend so lets insert the friendship in reverse and set the status to 1 on both ends
// Problem i see is this if the user wishs to remove the friend later he will neen his password set to delete from this table.
// so i need to do a join table again where friend password gets inserted here..
$insertnewfriend = mysql_query("INSERT INTO user_friends_list (username,password,friend,status) VALUES ('$friend','$password','$username','0')") or die(mysql_error());
//ok lets update the request and set the friend to be a friend becuase we said yes be my friend.
$deleteuserfriend = mysql_query("DELETE FROM user_declined_list  WHERE username = '$username' and password = '$password' and friend = '$friend' and status ='0'");
return;
}


?>

Hi,

Been looking for a little while on this problem, but can't seem to find a solution.

Ok, so I have two tables,

gallery & users

Gallery contains images, image info etc.
Users contains usernames, emails etc.

In users there is a 'photo' column, which references to an ID in the gallery table. This is so each user can have a 'profile' image from a bank of images stored in gallery.

What i'm trying to do is have a query that will output all of the images, and then show the usernames of assigned to each photo if there is one.

Heres what i've got:

Code: [Select]
$result = mysql_query("SELECT *,COUNT(photo) AS usercount FROM gallery LEFT JOIN users ON gallery.img_id=users.photo GROUP BY img_id ORDER BY date_uploaded ASC");
Its all fine, and displays the username, though if there are multiple users using the same photo, it only shows one username.
However, when displaying 'usercount', it will show that there are 2+ or whatever.

Short of nesting queries within other loops, is there an alternative solution??

Thanks!
Edd

Hello, I'm trying to get a join with 2 tables but cannot get it to work. It's a contentsystem with an ID for the author. Another table tells the name of the author. Now I want to join these things. This is what i've coded so far:

<?
$query = "SELECT rmnl_content.content_aid, COUNT(rmnl_content.content_id), rmnl_crew.crew_id, rmnl_crew.crew_name

FROM rmnl_content, rmnl_crew" "where rmnl_content.content_aid = rmnl_crew.crew_id";
   
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

// Print out result
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
   echo " <b>". $row['COUNT(rmnl_content.content_id)'] ."</b> posted messages by ". $row

['crew_rmnl.crew_name'] ."</td> .";
   echo "<br />";
}
?>

hi i created a page where users can reply to a post and i saved there reply in a table i called comment.when new visitors click on a topic they can see the topic and the people that comment on the topic..Now my problem is this when i click on any topic it display the comment on that topic whch is good but also display comments from other topics wchich is not supposed to be.i have tried joining the tables but i keep getting syntax errors.is joining the comment table to the topics table the solution?? if so can anyone give me the proper way of joining a table but if there is another way kindly tell me.Thanks 

Hello:

I am writing this code:
Code: [Select]
<?php

include('include/myConn.php');
include('include/myCodeLib.php');

$zip_id = $_REQUEST['zip_id'];

$query=mysql_query("SELECT zip_id,city,full_state,zip FROM zip_codes WHERE zip_id = $zip_id") or die("Could not get data from db: ".mysql_error());

while($result=mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
  $zip_id=$result['zip_id'];
  $city=$result['city'];
  $full_state=$result['full_state'];
  $zip=$result['zip'];
}

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML>

<head>

<title></title>

</head>

<body>

<?php echo $city; ?>, <?php echo $full_state; ?> <?php echo $zip; ?>

</body>

</html>


It works fine as far as writing out the "City, State Zipcode", but I wanted to see if there is a way to "join" the 3 statements together so it can be written as just 1 statement. Like:
Code: [Select]
<?php echo $city, $full_state $zip; ?>

What is the trick to doing this?

Thanks in advance.

I have two tables book and category,    book

id   title           author   category          isbn
1    fun times       Joe         1              16161514 (new record)
2    fishing trip    Jim      Juvenile Science  88771615 (old record) 
3    beach hunt      Sam         3              81009991 (new record)
4    day out         John        3              81009991 (new record)
5    farm fun        Jim      Classic Kids      88771615 (old record)

category

id   cat_name
1    horror 
2    science
3    kids 

I use the join query below to display a list of all book info, works fine.

SELECT b.id, b.title, b.category, b.author, b.isbn, b.publicationYear
        c.cat_name
        FROM book AS b
        INNER JOIN category AS c ON b.category = c.id

The problem I am facing is that all some of the books (1000's actually) in the db have been imported from a previous db, and instead of containing an integer for the category they contain a string such as 'General Fiction' or 'Popular Classics' etc.    Must I import all of these categories into the 'category' table and assign an integer to them, or is there a way of simply displaying the string that is contained within the 'book' table as it stands?   I use the code below to display the html table of results;

while($row = $res->fetch_array()) {
    echo '<tr>';
    echo '<td>' . $row['id'] . '</td>';
    echo '<td>' . $row['title'] . '</td>';
    echo '<td>' . $row['author'] . '</td>';
    echo '<td>' . $row['cat_name'] . '</td>';
    echo '<td>' . $row['isbn'] . '</td>';
    echo '<td>' . $row['publicationYear'] . '</td>';
    echo '</tr>';
    echo '</tbody>';    
};