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April 12th, 2003, 04:08 AM

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MySQL table joins

I have these tables:

"user"
-------------
id int
email varchar

"group_tbl"
------------
id int
owner_id int
name varchar

"group_list"
---------------
gid int
uid int

user.id is the unique numeric id of each user in this system
user.email is the full email address of each user in this system

group_tbl.id is the unique numeric id of each group in this system
group_tbl.owner_id is the id of the user responsible for this group
group_tbl.name is the full name for each group in this system

group_list.gid is a numeric group id
group_list.uid is a numeric user id

The user table lists everybody; the "group_tbl" lists all the groups that people can belong to; and, the "group_list" table shows who belongs to what group. You can belong to any or all groups or none. The group_list table is initially empty until members are added.

I'm writing an app to allow an authorized person to manage the users and groups. In the group management part under membership I can have the admin pick the group he wants to work with. This works.

The hard part is that I want to show the admin two lists of users. The first list [the one kicking me hard] is a list of ALL users that are NOT the owner OR otherwise a member of this particular group. The second list are the current members [easy].

Owners are not [currently] listed as "members" of their groups.

The result will be a web form where you can pick non-members to add to the group and vice-versa. I just can't seem to generate the list of non-members.

I'm using a very recent version of MySQL

April 13th, 2003, 05:45 AM

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RE: MySQL table joins

this will list users NOT in $group

php Code:

Original - php Code
// get group id from somewhere $group=3; mysql_query("SELECT u.* FROM user u LEFT JOIN group_list l ON u.id = l.uid AND l.gid = $group WHERE l.uid IS NULL "); // ...

 
// get group id from somewhere
$group=3;
 
mysql_query("SELECT u.*  
    FROM user u
    LEFT JOIN group_list l 
    ON u.id = l.uid 
    AND l.gid = $group
    WHERE l.uid IS NULL
");
 
// ...

April 14th, 2003, 01:58 PM

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RE: MySQL table joins

Hey! this is great, thank you!

A question though. The LEFT JOIN is pulling in all the non-group members including the group owner. Is it possible to get a list of all NON-members that doesn not in clude the owner? Or, would it be easier to include the owner in the membership list?

Dean...K...

April 15th, 2003, 07:29 AM

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RE: MySQL table joins

Also a big thanx on behalf of me! I came across exactly the same problem with two lists a couple of weeks ago. Nobody could help me, newsgroups, forums, collegues, you name it. A big hurray for the codewalkers forum (and especially for zombie ;-) )!

Tom

April 15th, 2003, 11:20 AM

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RE: MySQL table joins

but that part is easy.. you realy should try to do smth yourself..

anyway, just add another condition in the where clausole:

php Code:

Original - php Code
// get group id from somewhere $group=3; // and get owner id of that group $owner=4; mysql_query("SELECT u.* FROM user u LEFT JOIN group_list l ON u.id = l.uid AND l.gid = $group WHERE l.uid IS NULL AND u.id <> $owner ");

 
// get group id from somewhere
$group=3;
// and get owner id of that group
$owner=4;
 
mysql_query("SELECT u.*  
    FROM user u
    LEFT JOIN group_list l
    ON u.id = l.uid
    AND l.gid = $group
    WHERE l.uid IS NULL
    AND u.id <> $owner
");

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