how would i go about ordering by a value that is not in the table where i am selecting from, in this instance the value $count1 is not in the table search.
count has the same identifying id as that of the thing it is being reffered to in the other table, this is where count1 is grabbed
$q = $db->prepare("SELECT COUNT(rating) FROM ratings WHERE id='$id' AND rating = 'd'");
$q->execute();
$count1 = $q->fetchColumn();
$query = "SELECT * FROM search WHERE title LIKE '$each' ORDER BY '$count1'"
$query = $db->prepare($query);
$query->execute();
that is from ratings, how would i go about ordering the entries like that, so that they are based off the number of count1 and are decided, i might have to implement something like
$query = "SELECT * FROM search WHERE title LIKE '$each' AND id = '$id' ORDER BY '$count1'"
$query = $db->prepare($query);
$query->execute();
Possible Duplicate: Mysql order by specific ID values
Same thing here, you'll just output your $count1as a comma separated string and add it in the SQL query as ORDER BY FIELD(COUNT,___comma_sep_string___)
ratings is a table, not a database. You can join tables or use subqueries to get the desired result, without having to make multiple queries.
You haven't described how the FOREIGN_KEY is set up in the ratings table, but assuming you have something ratings.search_id, this should work:
SELECT search.*, (SELECT COUNT(rating)
FROM ratings
WHERE ratings.search_id = search.id
AND rating = 'd'
) AS rating_count
FROM search
WHERE title LIKE '$each'
ORDER BY rating_count