I'm creating a table that shows all the registered users to which the current user has not yet subscribed to. But once he has subscribed someone, I need to filter that list to exclude those.
Let's say the theres a table called subscribed which lists the User and to whom he is subscribed to.
|UserId||SubscriberID|
Its easy to make it into multiple queries, but I've been unsuccessfully trying to make it into one query, to save an extra loop of MySQL calls.
Here's What I have so far:
SELECT u.UserID, FullName, UserName from users u
LEFT JOIN subscribed t ON
((u.UserName LIKE '%$search%' OR
u.Email LIKE '%$search%') AND
({$_SESSION['ID']} = t.UserID
AND t.FollowerID != u.UserID)
)
I know the last part of the query is wrong, since I only compare if the UserID and the FollowerID don't match for one particular row, not the entire table.
To find a list of results in table A that are not in table B, you have two options. Either use the NOT IN
syntax, or LEFT JOIN
and look where the PK field in the B table is NULL
.
NOT IN
example:
SELECT a.id FROM a WHERE a.id NOT IN (SELECT b.id FROM b)
LEFT JOIN
example:
SELECT a.id FROM a LEFT JOIN b ON (a.id = b.id) WHERE (b.id IS NULL)