Well this one is a headscratcher for me. I've got a system of posts with tags. Tags are a many->many relationship with the posts.
The issue is that I'd like to select other posts based on how many tags they have matching with the current one.
A quick visual example:
PostA: TagA, TagB
PostB: TagC
PostC: TagA
PostD: TagA, TagB
So if I inputted PostA, it'd give me PostD, PostC.
I really don't even know where to start with this one, and I'm hoping somebody smarter than I ran into this issue already and can offer some help.
OK, so supposing your tagged posts table actually looks like this:
PostA TagA
PostA TagB
PostB TagC
PostC TagA
PostD TagA
PostD TagB
then you want
SELECT post FROM tagged_posts
WHERE post != 'PostA'
AND tag in (SELECT tag FROM tagged_posts WHERE post = 'PostA')
GROUP BY post
ORDER BY COUNT(*) desc
Here is the wordpress version if anyone is interested. It uses tags (but can be modified for categories easily). Hope it helps somebody else too.
Note: Two variables that are needed, the $wpdb class (which needs to be globalized if this is being called in a function), and $post->ID which is set automatically with a call to the_post(), but otherwise needs to be set by hand.
$query = $wpdb->get_results("
SELECT posts.*
FROM {$wpdb->term_relationships} as relate
LEFT JOIN {$wpdb->term_taxonomy} as taxonomy
ON relate.term_taxonomy_id = taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id
LEFT JOIN {$wpdb->terms} as terms
ON taxonomy.term_id = terms.term_id
LEFT JOIN {$wpdb->posts} as posts
ON posts.ID = object_id
WHERE object_id != '{$post->ID}'
AND taxonomy = 'post_tag'
AND taxonomy.term_id in
(
SELECT term_id
FROM {$wpdb->term_relationships} as relate
LEFT JOIN {$wpdb->term_taxonomy} as taxonomy
ON relate.term_taxonomy_id = taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id
WHERE object_id = '{$post->ID}'
)
GROUP BY object_id
ORDER BY COUNT(*) desc
");