Trying to join tables to display the author of blog entry

[eluser]crumpet[/eluser]
i like to add
$this->db->join('authors', 'authors.id = entries.author_id', 'inner');
so that if the user account gets deleted then the blog entry will not appear
this is a matter of taste however - maybe you want the blog entry to still appear if the user account is deleted. if so you will need to have error checking so you dont get Undefined first_name error