I'm new to PHP/MySQL and super-new to CodeIgniter.. I have information in many MySQL tables. I want to retrieve it with JOIN where the tables primary keys are equal to $variable... How can I do it and get all the fields without the primary key field???
What I'm doing now is this (only two tables joined here):
function getAll($id) {
$this->db->select('*');
$this->db->from('movies');
$this->db->join('posters', 'movies.id= posters.id');
// WHERE id = $id ... goes here somehow...
$q = $this->db->get();
if ($q->num_rows() == 1) {
$row = $q->row();
$data = array(
'id' => $row->id,
'title' => $row->title,
'year' => $row->year,
'runtime' => $row->runtime,
'plotoutline' => $row->plotoutline,
'poster_url' => $row->poster_url
);
}
$q->free_result();
return $data;
id (PK), title, year, runtime and plotoutline are columns from the first table and poster_url is a field from the second table. The second table also contains an ID (PK) column that I don't want to Retrieve because I already have.
Jon is right. Here's an example:
$this->db->select('movies.id,
movies.title,
movies.year,
movies.runtime as totaltime,
posters.poster_url');
$this->db->from('movies');
$this->db->join('posters', 'movies.id= posters.id');
$this->db->where('movies.id', $id);
$q = $this->db->get();
This will return objects that have ->id, ->title, ->year, ->totaltime, and ->poster_url properties. You won't need the additional code to fetch the data from each row.
Don't forget, if the Active Record syntax gets a little unwieldy, you can use full SQL queries and get the same results:
$sql = "SELECT movies.id,
movies.title,
movies.year,
movies.runtime as totaltime,
posters.poster_url
FROM movies
INNER JOIN posters ON movies.id = posters.id
WHERE movies.id = ?"
return $this->db->query($sql, array($id))->result();
Both forms will ensure that your data is escaped properly.
CodeIgniter Active Record
Query Binding in CodeIgniter
An asterisk will return all the fields. To return a subset of these, i.e. all fields apart form the repeated id field, simply list the columns which you require rather than use '*'.
It is often a good idea to not use asterisk anyway. In the future of the app, someone may add a large field to the table which will be surplus to your requirements, and will slow your queries.
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