Getting MySQL's JOIN to work -- Please Help

[SaintDog]

I am working on a small hack for vBulletin and need to get a JOIN query to output the right data depending on a few things.

To start, I have 2 tables, one named hd_posts and the other hd_replies. What I want to do is when a post is shown, I want the replies with the matching ID to be show as well, if any are available.

Right now, I can show the post just fine, but I cannot create a query that works correctly so that I can call the matching replies as well.

I have outlined the table structure of each below:

hd_posts:

id, name, subtitle, subdate, subtime, message, and hashid

hd_replies:

id, tid, name, subtitle, subdate, subtime, message, and hashid

The tid is the ID of the matching post.

If anyone could help me get this working, I would greatly appreciate it. I am confused on this one query and cannot get it working at all.

Thanks in advance for anyone kind enough to take the time to help!

- SD

[Xenon]

[sql]SELECT post.*, reply.name as replyname, reply.subtitle as replysubtitle.......
FROM hd_posts as post
LEFT JOIN hd_replies as reply ON (post.id = reply.tid)[/sql]

this should do it..

[SaintDog]

Thanks Xenon, but that does not seem to work, or I am just doing something wrong (the second part is probably the problem ).

Here is what I have, could you please tell me if there is a problem with this?

PHP Code:

$listreply = ("SELECT post.*, reply.name as replyname, reply.subtitle as replysubtitle
FROM hd_posts as post
LEFT JOIN hd_replies as reply ON (post.id = reply.tid)");

while($listreplies = $DB_site->fetch_array($listreply)) {

    eval('$viewreplies .= "' . fetch_template('viewreplies') . '";');

} 


Using the above I get the following output at the top of the page:

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /path/to/includes/db_mysql.php on line 250

[Xenon]

it was just an example, not the full query, you have to add some reply fields at the end (folow my example of subtitle )

and then the code itself you forgot an $DB_site

PHP Code:

$listreply = $DB_site->query("SELECT post.*, reply.name as replyname, reply.subtitle as replysubtitle 
FROM hd_posts as post 
LEFT JOIN hd_replies as reply ON (post.id = reply.tid)"); 

while($listreplies = $DB_site->fetch_array($listreply)) { 

    eval('$viewreplies .= "' . fetch_template('viewreplies') . '";'); 

} 


then be sure your viewreplies template does use the correct varnames

[SaintDog]

I am not quite sure what else to add, I am just used to basic stuff since I am not that much of a programmer (as you can probably tell ).

What else would I need to add (as you mentioned above) to complete the query (I didn't add the $DB_site-> though it is in the original query, just left it off here).

[Xenon]

hmm ok, then the long method

PHP Code:

$listreply = $DB_site->query("
SELECT post.*, reply.name as replyname, reply.subtitle as replysubtitle, reply.subtime as replysubtime, reply.message as replymessage, reply.hashid as replyhashid 
FROM hd_posts as post 
LEFT JOIN hd_replies as reply ON (post.id = reply.tid)
"); 

while($listreplies = $DB_site->fetch_array($listreply)) 
{ 

    eval('$viewreplies .= "' . fetch_template('viewreplies') . '";'); 

} 


and be sure as said $listreplies[reply....] is in your templates