Codeigniter active record class join two mysql tables - php

Question

Just want to get user_id and review_text values from table reviews, select name and city from table users where id=user_id and then return review_text, username and city to controller. Please help me.
public function did_get_reviews($item_id){
$this->db->select('user_id','review_text');
$this->db->from('reviews');
$this->db->where('post_id', $item_id);
$user_id = 'user_id' //??
$this->db->select('name','city');
$this->db->from('users');
$this->db->where('id', $user_id);
$query = $this->db->get('review_text','username','city'); //??
if ($query && $query->num_rows() >= 1){
return $query->result();
}
else {
return false;
}
}
Update 1:
I just tried to join tables but it returns the values for review_text only but I also want to get values for name and city. Please check the code below:
public function did_get_reviews($item_id){
$this->db->select('reviews.review_text','users.name','users.city');
$this->db->from('reviews','users');
$this->db->where('reviews.post_id', $item_id);
$this->db->join('users','reviews.user_id = users.user_id');
$query = $this->db->get();
if ($query && $query->num_rows() >= 1){
return $query->result();
}
else {
return false;
}
}

Answer 1

i think you need to use join query in SQL. if you use this code you can access to what you want
$result = $this->db->select('review, username, city')
->from('reviews')
->join('city', 'city.user_id = review.user_id')
->get();
print_r($result);
for more information about how you can write join query(left, inner or right) in codeigniter you can see this link
i hope that this code solve your problem
UPDATE
in your new question. your code have a little buggy. you need to write your select in this way
public function did_get_reviews($item_id){
$this->db->select('reviews.review_text,users.name,users.city')
->from('reviews','users')
->where('reviews.post_id', $item_id)
->join('users','reviews.user_id = users.user_id');
$query = $this->db->get();
if ($query && $query->num_rows() >= 1){
return $query->result();
}
else {
return false;
}
}
in codeigniter select Active record; any column name separate with each other by , only (not by ' and ,)
in codeigniter documentation wrote that
Permits you to write the SELECT portion of your query:
$this->db->select('title, content, date');
$query = $this->db->get('mytable');
// Produces: SELECT title, content, date FROM mytable

Answer 2

You can get the value for user_id using:
$this->db->select('user_id','review_text');
$this->db->from('reviews');
$this->db->where('post_id', $item_id);
$result = $this->db->get();
print_r($result);
use the same $this->db->get(); to get the values of the second query as well. Once you get the values inside a variable you can iterate it. Something like:
foreach ($result->result() as $row)
{
echo $row->name;
echo $row->city;
}