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POMySql - three sucessfully joined tables, but failing to get one column result?
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    copied!<p>I have three tables (user, post, comments) joined up (for an ajax powered social network thing I am doing for a degree). </p> <p>So far so good but when I loop through them I am getting all the results except one. The reference to who commented on a post (stored within comments table) is coming up only as a number id (which should be joined to the user table but my join is obviously not working correctly!).</p> <p>Any help very much appreciated! Probably something simple as I am still new at this PHP/mysql game!</p> <p>MySQL tables:</p> <pre><code> CREATE TABLE `post` ( `pid` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `uid` int(10) NOT NULL, `post` text NOT NULL, `pid_imageurl` varchar(100) NOT NULL, `likes` int(10) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`pid`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=5 CREATE TABLE `user` ( `uid` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `name` varchar(20) NOT NULL, `password` varchar(20) NOT NULL, `uid_imageurl` varchar(100) NOT NULL, `joindate` varchar(11) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`uid`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=9 ; CREATE TABLE `comments` ( `cid` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `comment_pid` int(10) NOT NULL, `comment_uid` int(10) NOT NULL, `comment` text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`cid`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=4 ; </code></pre> <p>Code:</p> <pre><code> $sql = "SELECT post.post, post.pid_imageurl, post.likes, user.name, comments.comment, user.uid_imageurl, comments.comment_uid FROM post INNER JOIN user ON post.uid=user.uid LEFT JOIN comments ON comments.comment_pid=post.pid AND user.uid=comments.comment_uid "; $result = mysql_query($sql); while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){?&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;User Profile image here:&lt;? echo $row['uid_imageurl']; ?&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Post:&lt;? echo $row['post']; ?&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Post by:&lt;? echo $row['name']; ?&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Post images:&lt;? echo $row['pid_imageurl']; ?&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;post has: &lt;? echo $row['likes']; ?&gt; likes.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;? echo $row['comment']; ?&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;by: &lt;? echo $row['comment_uid']; ?&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;!--This is only output as a stored id no rather than users name--!&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;?} ?&gt; </code></pre>
 

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