I have searched high and low and cant find a similar issue to what i have.
I am a beginner so please forgive my clunky query structure.
I am trying to ( have attached screen grab below of output ):
Query the photos table to get the id based on category id and also start,limit because of pagination.
Query the photos tagged table based on the photo id i just got from the first query.
But my problem is that i cant group the tags, some photos have the same tag name. And the output just shows all the tags for each photo. I want restaurant to show only once etc...
<?php
// Get the file ideez and dont go beyond pagination start,limit eg:30,10
$queryFile = "SELECT id FROM $tableName WHERE cat_id=".$fileID." LIMIT $start, $limit";
$resultFile = mysql_query($queryFile);
while ($rowFile = mysql_fetch_array($resultFile)) {
// Get the tag names based on the file ideez retrived from the above query
$queryTagged = "SELECT tag_name FROM photoTagged WHERE file_id=".$rowFile['id']." GROUP BY tag_name";
$resultTagged = mysql_query($queryTagged) or die(mysql_error());
while ($rowTagged = mysql_fetch_array($resultTagged)) {
$tagged = $rowTagged['tag_name'];
?>
<li><a href="#"><?php echo $tagged; ?></li>
<?php }} ?>
the above query is producing:
bar,cappucino,coffee,coffee machine,restaurant,bar,cappucino,coffee,coffee machine,restaurant,bar,coffee,restaurant,bar,coffee,coffee machine
restaurant,bar,cappucino,coffee,restaurant
what i need to show is:
bar,cappucino,coffee,coffee machine,restaurant
If anyone could help i would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you in advance.
John
My new code is
<?php
// Get the file ideez and dont go beyond pagination start,limit eg:30,10
$queryFile = "SELECT id FROM $tableName WHERE cat_id=".$fileID." LIMIT $start, $limit";
$resultFile = mysql_query($queryFile);
while ($rowFile = mysql_fetch_array($resultFile)) {
// Get the tag names based on the file ideez retrived from the above query
$queryTagged = "SELECT DISTINCT tag_name FROM photoTagged WHERE file_id=".$rowFile['id'];
$resultTagged = mysql_query($queryTagged) or die(mysql_error());
$rowTagged = mysql_fetch_array($resultTagged);
$tagged = $rowTagged['tag_name'];
?>
<li><a href="#"><?php echo $tagged; ?></li>
<?php } ?>
I now get this: ( So i am close arent i? )
----------
cappucino
restaurant
bar
coffee machine
restaurant
coffee
coffee
restaurant
restaurant
restaurant
coffee
coffee
restaurant
restaurant
coffee machine
restaurant
coffee
I wonder if the spaces are something? i got that from copy and paste...
Any further help would be appreciated :-)
You should first perform a join between your photos and tags table, and THEN select the distinct tags.
I believe this query will let the database do all the work for you:
SELECT DISTINCT tag_name
FROM (SELECT file_id FROM $tableName WHERE cat_id=$fileID LIMIT $start, $limit) t1
LEFT JOIN photoTagged ON t1.id = photoTagged.file_id
You can also sort the tags in the database (ORDER BY tag_name).
Haven't tried it myself, so maybe the syntax is a bit off. But the idea should work.
distinct doesnt work if you are only getting one record at a time, so put the data in a PHP array and then use array_unique, which is PHPs way to do distinct
<?php
// Get the file ideez and dont go beyond pagination start,limit eg:30,10
$queryFile = "SELECT id FROM $tableName WHERE cat_id=".$fileID." LIMIT $start, $limit";
$resultFile = mysql_query($queryFile);
while ($rowFile = mysql_fetch_array($resultFile)) {
// Get the tag names based on the file ideez retrived from the above query
$queryTagged = "SELECT tag_name FROM photoTagged WHERE file_id=".$rowFile['id'];
$resultTagged = mysql_query($queryTagged) or die(mysql_error());
$rowTagged = mysql_fetch_array($resultTagged)
$tagged[] = $rowTagged['tag_name'];
}
// Let PHP do the work.
$tagged=array_unique($tagged);
while (list(,$val) = each($tagged)) {
echo "<li><a href="#">$val</li>
}
?>
you need to do a sub-query to dodge the pagination problems with the photos. If you wish the selected tags to be a subset of the photos found in your first query, then you will need to do the following.
<?php
$queryTagged = "SELECT TAG.tag_name, count(TAG.tag_name) AS num FROM photoTagged as TAG JOIN (SELECT id FROM $tableName WHERE cat_id=$fileID LIMIT $start, $limit) as PHOTO ON (PHOTO.id = TAG.file_id) GROUP BY TAG.tag_name";
$resultTagged = mysql_query($queryTagged) or die(mysql_error());
while ($tagged = mysql_fetch_assoc($resultTagged)) {
echo "<li id="'.$tagged['TAG.tag_name'].'"><a href="#">".$tagged['TAG.tag_name']." (".$tagged['TAG.num'].")</li>";
}
?>
This way you will have two queries, on for finding the photos, and one for finding the tags for the photos on that page. This technically takes a little longer as MySQL has to load the query into a temporary table, but it should work fine.
SELECT DISTINCT tag_name FROM photoTagged WHERE file_id=".$rowFile['id'] ?
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I'm trying to write a php code to select form tables:
books
images
Some books does not have an image, so I want to skip it and select another book.
I have wrote this code but it does not work with me perfectly.
Now I'm getting only 5 records! it must be 6 as I limited in the book select query.
$slider_sql = "select * from books limit 6";
$slider_result = $conn->query($slider_sql);
while($slider_row = $slider_result->fetch_assoc()) {
extract($slider_row);
$img_sql = "SELECT big_img FROM images WHERE book_id = '$id'";
$img_rs = $conn->query($img_sql);
$img_row = $img_rs->fetch_assoc();
if ($img_rs->num_rows == 0)
continue; //--> here I want to start while again to select another book.
echo $book_name.'<br>';
echo $img_row['big_img'].'<br>';
}
Thanks for your help and time!
Instead of having a sub-query in a loop (which is nearly ALWAYS a bad idea!), use a JOIN instead, which simplifies it to one query instead of two. Then set a condition that big_img should not be empty. This guarantees that you will only find rows where there's an image matching the book. LIMIT will still only ensure the return of 6 rows. <> in MySQL is the same as !=.
$slider_sql = "SELECT b.book_name, i.big_img
FROM books b
JOIN images i
ON i.book_id=b.id
WHERE i.big_img <> ''
LIMIT 6";
$result = $conn->query($slider_sql);
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo $row['book_name'].'<br>';
echo $row['big_img'].'<br>';
}
MySQL JOIN
Thanks in advance for any time you spend on my question.
I am trying to display data in a way that will display the manufacturer as a name instead of a number.
Basically when they store the data they choose a manufacturer from a drop down which is generated from a table.. IE Trogues = 1 so products stores the #1 so I know that any beer is associated with trogues is 1. Now I want to display the data but instead of having a 1 I would like to have Trogues be displayed. Where you see manufacturer in the echo code below..
I am not understanding the process logic here..
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM products
LEFT JOIN manufacturer
ON product.manufacturer = manufacturer.id
ORDER BY manufacturer.id, product.id";
$query = mysql_query($sql);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
echo "
<div class=reportclientproduct>".$row['manufacturer']." - <a href=".$row['website']." target=_blank>".$row['product']."</a></div>";
}
Have you tried the query like this:
$sql = "SELECT man.id AS manufac, products.product AS prod FROM products
LEFT JOIN manufacturer as man
ON product.manufacturer = manufacturer.id
ORDER BY manufacturer.id, product.id";
$query = mysql_query($sql);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
echo "
".$row['manufac']." - ".$row['prod']."
";
}
Assuming that the table products had a column named manufacturer which holds the ID of the manufacturer, and that both tables have columns name ID which hold the ID of the table item.
Also the JOIN functions may vary based on the database you use. But the aforementioned method is for mysql.
i have a online application for wich i require a sort of dashboard (to use the white-space).
There are three tables used for the operation:
1.) categories: id, name
2.) entries: id, name, description, category_id, created, modified
3.) entryimages: id, filename, description, entry_id
on the dashboard i want to show 4-5 entries (with thumbnail images, so i require joins to the entryimages table and the categories table) for each category.
I read through some articles (and threads on s.o.) like this one:
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-select-the-firstleastmax-row-per-group-in-sql/
But am still not getting it right, i've tried to first extract all categories and for each and every category build a query and with "all union" attach them to one, but that is not working.
The last version of code i used:
foreach($categories as $id => $name)
{
$query .= "SELECT `entry`.`id`,
`entry`.`name`,
`entry`.`description`,
`entry`.`category_id`,
`entry`.`created`,
`entry`.`modified`,
`entryimages`.`filename`,
`entryimages`.`description`
FROM `entries` as `entry` LEFT JOIN `entryimages` ON `entryimages`.`entry_id` = `entry`.`id`
WHERE `entry`.`category_id` = $id ";
if($i < count($groups))
{
$query .= 'UNION ALL ';
}
$i++;
}
$result = mysql_query($query);
Does anybody know what is the best right to accomplish this operation?
Thanks 1000
On the dashboard if you want to show three entries, the way you are doing is wrong. If my understanding is right, the entire query will be something like
"SELECT `entry`.`id`,
`entry`.`name`,
`entry`.`description`,
`entry`.`category_id`,
`entry`.`created`,
`entry`.`modified`,
`entryimages`.`filename`,
`entryimages`.`description`
FROM `entries` as `entry`
INNER JOIN categories
ON (entry.category_id = categories.id)
LEFT JOIN (SELECT * FROM `entryimages` WHERE `entry_id` = `entry`.`id` LIMIT 1) AS `entryimages`
ON `entryimages`.`entry_id` =`entry`.`id`
ORDER BY `entry`.`created` DESC LIMIT 5";
Your code looks ok to me you should just add a LIMIT clause so that you get just five of them and an ORDER BY clause to get the latest
$query .= "SELECT `entry`.`id`,
`entry`.`name`,
`entry`.`description`,
`entry`.`category_id`,
`entry`.`created`,
`entry`.`modified`,
`entryimages`.`filename`,
`entryimages`.`description`
FROM `entries` as `entry` LEFT JOIN `entryimages` ON `entryimages`.`entry_id` = `entry`.`id`
WHERE `entry`.`category_id` = $id ORDER BY `entry`.`created` DESC LIMIT 5";
I'm getting terribly slow results from the following code. I've been trying to troubleshoot it for hours but with no results. I've included only the relevant code.
Edit:
I am trying to select an id from a database and then use that id to get all the images associated with it. I am then narrowing that group of images down to one. Once I have that image I am resizing it through an external file.
I've tried removing various parts of the code to identify the problem and it seems as if the slow down is being caused by the second query but I am not sure why. Thanks for your help.
$getworks = mysql_query ("SELECT a_id from artists where display_works = '1' and active = '1' order by project_year desc, fullname desc");
while ($getworksrow = mysql_fetch_assoc($getworks)){
$totalimages=1;
$addstyle = "";
$id = $getworksrow["a_id"];
$getimages = mysql_query ("SELECT a_id, image_id from images where a_id = '". $id ."' order by position asc LIMIT 1");
$getimagesrow = mysql_fetch_assoc($getimages);
foreach ($getimagesrow as $getimagesrows){
extract($getimagesrow);
if($totalimages > 1){ $addstyle = 'style="display:none;"'; }
else {
$myimagename = "http://artist.com/$a_id/images/$image_id" . "_large.jpg";
list($width, $height, $type, $attr) = getimagesize("$myimagename");
$myimagename = "http://artist.com/artists/resize.php/$a_id/images/$image_id" . "_large.jpg?resize(157x2000)";
if($getworksrows["layout"] == "vert"){$pl = "_vertical";}else if($getworksrows["layout"] == "website"){$pl = "-s";}else if($getworksrows["layout"] == "video"){$pl = "_video";}else{$pl = "_horizontal";}
echo "<li class='thumbnail_container' $addstyle> <a class='thumbnail' href=\"../works$pl.php?a_id=" . $getworksrows["a_id"] . "\"><span><img src=\"$myimagename\" /></span>\n</a></li>\n";
}
$totalimages++;
}
}
It's a a big performance overhead to execute queries like this specially when parent query have large no. of records.
You should use join artists table with images table and get all data by single query.
Later on make 2D array of per artists and images. and loop according to 2D array to display data
Below is join query you should use:
SELECT * from artists as art
left join images as img on art.a_id=img.a_id
where display_works = '1' and active = '1'
order by project_year desc, fullname desc
In While make data array:
while ($getworksrow = mysql_fetch_object($getworks)){
$data['a_id']['img_id']=$getworksrow->image; //Make 2D array
........
........
}
looping and display data :
foreach($data as $id=>$images)
{
foreach($images as $val){
// Do your stuff for displaying data
}
}
So please do required changes.
Hi i have a social networking website.
what i want it to do is pull out my friends status updates.
basically what it does is i have a mysql query that pulls out all of my friends and in that while loop there is another mysql query that pulls out the status's from my friends.
i want it to be in order of date but since its one while loop in another what it does is pull out all status's from friend 1 then 2 then 3 and not in order by date. i even tried ORDER BY DATE but that just ordered it by date within the friend..
my thought is that i could putt it all in an array and friends is one thing and the values is the stats. then just sort by values would this work and how could i do it.
the friend and stats are in two differants tables
THANKS SO MUCH
CODE:
$friendssql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM friends WHERE sender='$id'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_object($friendssql)) {
$friendid = $row-> accepter;
$frsql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM myMembers WHERE id='$friendid'");
while($rowa = mysql_fetch_object($frsql)) {
$ufirstname = $rowa-> firstname;
$ulastname = $rowa-> lastname;
}
$blabsql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM blabbing WHERE mem_id='$friendid' ORDER BY blab_date DESC");
while($rowb = mysql_fetch_object($blabsql)) {
$blab = $rowb-> the_blab;
$blabd =$rowb-> blab_date;
$ucheck_pic = "members/$friendid/image01.jpg";
$udefault_pic = "members/0/image01.jpg";
if (file_exists($ucheck_pic)) {
$blabber_pic = "<img src=\"$ucheck_pic\" width=\"50px\" border=\"0\" />"; // forces picture to be 100px wide and no more
} else {
$blabber_pic = "<img src=\"$udefault_pic\" width=\"40px\" border=\"0\" />"; // forces default picture to be 100px wide and no more
}
Once you've put your data into the array, you could take a look at some of the various array sorting functions in PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/array.sorting.php
why not do it all in one query? this is psuedo sql, so you'll have to modify with your real tables and relationships.
select f.name,s.statustext
from friends f
inner join status s
on s.friend_id = f.id
inner join myfriends mf
on mf.friend_id = f.id
where mf.myid = 'myid'
order by f.name, s.datestamp
or something similar.