[eluser]inari[/eluser]
How can I use natural join with Codeigniter Active Record?
Something like:
Code: SELECT *
FROM employee NATURAL JOIN department
C/P:
Quote:The NATURAL JOIN joins two tables which contain a column or multiple columns with the same name and data-type.
The following query joins the customer table to the invoice table with a natural join, the natural join utilizes the customer_id that is present on both the customer table and the invoice table. It returns the customer and invoice data for invoices that have not had any payments made on them.
Code: SELECT customer_id, invoice_id, customer.first_name, customer.last_name
FROM CUSTOMER
NATURAL JOIN invoice
WHERE invoice.amount_paid = 0;
Thanks for any answer
[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
Code: $this->db->from('employee NATURAL JOIN department');
should work
[eluser]inari[/eluser]
How can be used with get_where() method?
[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
you could try it in the first parameter but i'm not sure it will work.
[eluser]roryokane[/eluser]
I'm afraid this doesn't work for me. With the code Code: $query = $this->db->select('title, description, length(audio), realname, creationdate, podid')->from('podcasts NATURAL JOIN users')->where('userid', $this->uri->rsegment(4) )->get();
I get this error:
Quote:A Database Error Occurred
Error Number: 1064
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'JOIN` users) WHERE `userid` = '4'' at line 2
SELECT `title`, `description`, length(`audio`), `realname`, `creationdate`, `podid` FROM (`podcasts` NATURAL `JOIN` users) WHERE `userid` = '4'
As you can see, the "JOIN" was quoted and "users" was not. Maybe an update of CodeIgniter stopped this from working.
What I'd really like to do, and wish CodeIgniter could do, is say something like Code: $this->db->from('podcasts')->join('users', 'NATURAL')
or perhaps even Code: $this->db->from('podcasts')->join('users')
I'm having trouble working around this problem without just using $this->db->query(). When I change the middle of the query to Code: ->from('podcasts')->join('users', 'users.userid = podcasts.userid')
, I get this error:
Quote:A Database Error Occurred
Error Number: 1052
Column 'userid' in where clause is ambiguous
SELECT `title`, `description`, length(`audio`), `realname`, `creationdate`, `podid` FROM (`podcasts`) JOIN `users` ON users.userid = podcasts.userid WHERE `userid` = '4'
, even though I made sure to specify the column names (though stupid MySQL 5.0.41 should be able to realize that the result will be the same after the join).
Can anyone help with either of these problems, or tell me how I would officially request or write myself (for the official release) the modification to join()? (I'm not sure if a bug report is appropriate.)
[eluser]maesk[/eluser]
How about this:
Code: $this->db->select('userid, title, description, length(audio), realname, creationdate, podid');
$this->db->from('podcasts');
$this->db->join('users', 'users.userid = podcasts.userid');
$this->db->where('users.userid', $this->uri->rsegment(4));
$query = $this->db->get();
Does this work?
[eluser]Sumon[/eluser]
[quote author="inari" date="1210996091"]How can I use natural join with Codeigniter Active Record?
Code: SELECT customer_id, invoice_id, customer.first_name, customer.last_name
FROM CUSTOMER
NATURAL JOIN invoice
WHERE invoice.amount_paid = 0;
[/quote]
Try this
Code: $query = $this->db->select('I.customer_id, I.invoice_id, C.customer.first_name, C.customer.last_name')
->from('CUSTOMER C, invoice I')
->where('I.amount_paid', 0)
->get();
return $query;
/* view file
foreach ($query->result() as $row)
{
echo $row->title;
}
*/
[eluser]roryokane[/eluser]
Thanks, maesk. Your code didn't quite work verbatim, but all I needed to do to it is remove the userid in the the the select clause, because I don't need it in the result, and I got an error saying that userid was ambiguous, too. Here is my final code, which works:
Code: $this->db->select('title, description, length(audio), realname, creationdate, podid');
$this->db->from('podcasts');
$this->db->join('users', 'users.userid = podcasts.userid');
$this->db->where('users.userid', $this->uri->rsegment(4));
$query = $this->db->get();
It really shouldn't make a difference whether I do it in one statement or many with PHP 5.2.5, so I guess this is a bug in CodeIgniter.
[eluser]maesk[/eluser]
The select clause, when selecting also the userid from podcasts, probably should have been:
Code: $this->db->select('podcasts.userid, title, description, length(audio), realname, creationdate, podid');
instead of
Code: $this->db->select('userid, title, description, length(audio), realname, creationdate, podid');
and yes, it should work in one statement, as long as nothing is ambiguous. I couldn't test it but I'm glad you could make it work.
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