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Retrieving comments via active record? - El Forum - 01-08-2012
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hi,
How would you do a query that would join up and retrieve the comments for a news/blogpost
with the Active Record provided in CI?
I've two tables, lets called them "news" and "news_comments". I am currently showing
all news on a page and for each news i'd like to add a link that has the count for how
many comments that particular news has.
Example: Comments(5)
And so i would somehow have to join up the two tables and do a count against the news_comments table and store that count_value in my query. This is the simple query
i have so far. Note that it is a query displaying multiple news, it is not a "retrieve a single news item by id and then its comments", but rather lets get all the news and the commentCount for each news.
Code:
public function get_news_limited($startRow, $perPage)
{
$this->db->order_by("posted", "desc");
$query = $this->db->get("news",$perPage,$startRow);
if($query->num_rows() > 0)
{
return $query->result_array();
}
return false;
}Maybe someone is good at sql and active record and could figure this out.
Thanks