Reputation: 8385
I have the query below that works fine when I use it in phpMyAdmin, I am just a bit unsure how to do it within the CI framework when I have the m.id
etc in place.
Query:
SELECT DISTINCT m.name, m.id, c.id, c.name
FROM `default_ps_products` p
INNER JOIN `default_ps_products_manufacturers` m ON p.manufacturer_id = m.id
INNER JOIN `default_ps_product_x_cats` x ON p.id = x.product_id
INNER JOIN `default_ps_products_categories` c ON x.category_id = c.id
Upvotes: 0
Views: 3895
Reputation: 5649
There are many ways.
Example 1:
$result = $this->db
->select('m.name, m.id, c.id, c.name')
->distinct()
->join('default_ps_products_manufacturers m', 'p.manufacturer_id=m.id')
->join('default_ps_product_x_cats x', 'p.id=x.product_id')
->join('default_ps_products_categories c', 'x.category_id=c.id')
->get('default_ps_products p')
->result();
echo $this->db->last_query();
Sometimes the active record can't produce the query you want. So you can write it yourself.
Example 2:
$query = "SELECT DISTINCT m.name, m.id, c.id, c.name
FROM `default_ps_products` p
INNER JOIN `default_ps_products_manufacturers` m ON p.manufacturer_id = m.id
INNER JOIN `default_ps_product_x_cats` x ON p.id = x.product_id
INNER JOIN `default_ps_products_categories` c ON x.category_id = c.id";
$result = $this->db
->query($query)
->result();
echo $this->db->last_query();
In this second example, db::query() can take an array as the second parameter that will replace any question marks (?) within $query with the respective value. For example say you needed to add some where values to your query.
Example 3:
$query = "SELECT DISTINCT m.name, m.id, c.id, c.name
FROM `default_ps_products` p
INNER JOIN `default_ps_products_manufacturers` m ON p.manufacturer_id = m.id
INNER JOIN `default_ps_product_x_cats` x ON p.id = x.product_id
INNER JOIN `default_ps_products_categories` c ON x.category_id = c.id
WHERE c.id=?";
$result = $this->db
->query($query, array(1))
->result();
echo $this->db->last_query();
Upvotes: 2