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POhow to query names of friends from a friend's table
 

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    <p>Given the following table, I'm trying to write a query that will return the names of user 104's friends.</p> <p>MYSQL TABLE friends</p> <pre><code>id | requester | requestee | status -------------------------------------- 1 | 140 | 104 | 'friends' 2 | 104 | 151 | 'friends' </code></pre> <p>I tried this but it's not quite right because it returns the name of user 140 (which is correct) and the name of user 104 (which is incorrect - I wanted the name of user 151). I realize part of my problem is due to the "ON f.requester = u.id", but I'm not sure how to write the query to get what I want.</p> <pre><code>SELECT u.name FROM users u INNER JOIN friends f ON f.requester = u.id WHERE ( f.requester =104 AND STATUS = 'friends' ) OR ( f.requestee =104 AND STATUS = 'friends' ) LIMIT 0 , 30 </code></pre> <p>Any help is appreciated. Thanks.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> I also tried making a "bigger query" and using PHP to extract what I need. This sort of works but I'm only able to get the user IDs so far. $query = "SELECT * FROM <code>friends</code> WHERE requester='$userid' OR requestee='$userid' AND status='friends'"; $results = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());</p> <pre><code>$count = 0; while ($row = @mysql_fetch_assoc($results)){ $count++; if ( !is_null($row['requester']) ) { $requester = $row['requester']; $requestee = $row['requestee']; if($requester == $userid) echo $requestee . "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"; else echo $requester . "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"; } } </code></pre>
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