Unknown column 'xxx' in 'field list', Codeigniter - php

Question

I've been looking at this error for a while and can't see what I'm doing wrong with my codeigniter sql query, can anyone advise?
Unknown column 'album_images.album_id' in 'field list'
$this->db->select('
albums.id as album_id,
albums.album_title,
album_images.album_id,
album_images.image_id,
AVG(views.id) as views_id,
views.views as views_total,
images.id,
images.alpha_id,
images.user,
images.image_title,
images.image_type,
images.file_ext,
images.image_width,
images.image_height,
images.file_size,
images.submitted,
images.status'
);
$this->db->from('images', 'albums', 'album_images', 'views');
$this->db->join('albums', 'albums.id = album_images.album_id');
$this->db->join('views', 'views.id = images.id', 'left');
$this->db->where('albums.id', $id);
$this->db->where('images.status', 1); //fiter out deleted ones
$this->db->group_by('images.id');
$query = $this->db->get();
return $query->result();
I've checked all the spelling of everything multiple times and still get the same result. I did try reordering the this->db->from line, moving album_images to the beginning made the error change to images.id instead. If that's relevant at all.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? thanks

Answer 1

SELECT ... FROM (`images`) JOIN `albums` ON `albums`.`id` = `album_images`.`album_id` ...
If you do a join between two tables (images, albums), you need to formulate the relationship between those two. In your case you do a join between two tables but the relationship is with a third table (album_images), so the field is not found.
See as well:
How to INNER JOIN 3 tables using CodeIgniter
Join more than two tables in codeigniter
Multiple Joins in Codeigniter

Answer 2

Try this you give duplicate column name
i correct it you check whether it works or not
$this->db->select('
albums.id as albums_id,
albums.album_title,
album_images.album_id,
album_images.image_id,
AVG(views.id) as views_id,
views.views as views_total,
images.id,
images.alpha_id,
images.user,
images.image_title,
images.image_type,
images.file_ext,
images.image_width,
images.image_height,
images.file_size,
images.submitted,
images.status'
);