I have 2 tables:
1) game_follower (stores which user is following which game):
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| ID | game_id | user_id |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 |
2) videos:
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| ID | game_id | content | data |
| 1 | 2 | blah | blah |
| 2 | 1 | blah | blah |
I'm trying to implement a twitter-style following system, but I'm having trouble writing a query that does the following:
I can do it with separate queries but I've been told that using multiple queries is bad for performance, so how do I do this in with one query?
try this
SELECT v.game_id
FROM videos v
INNER JOIN game_follower gf ON gf.game_id = v.game_id
WHERE gf.user_id = 1
You should look into JOINs to do this with one query (which massivly increases speed compared to fetching the data seperately).
$conn = new PDO(CONNECTION_DETAILS, $username, $pass);
$variable = 1;
$sql = "SELECT game_follower.game_id FROM game_follower ";
$sql .= "INNER JOIN videos ";
$sql .= "ON game_follower.game_id = videos.game_id ";
$sql .= "WHERE game_follower.user_id = :id";
$query = $conn->prepare($sql);
$query->bindParam(':id', $variable, PDO::PARAM_INT);
$query->execute();
Something like that?