Comments on: Yet another tech support bleg

By: danithew

danithew — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:39:45 +0000

Kaimi, speaking of coding changes … I think it would be good for the sideblog if people could comment on the links provided there — whether to express approval/disapproval of the comments provided or to add thoughts regarding the content of the links themselves. Any chance of that ever happening?

By: Kaimi Wenger

Kaimi Wenger — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:59:35 +0000

Thank you, Bryce. It works like a charm!

By: Bryce I

Bryce I — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:52:22 +0000

SELECT SELECT ID, comment_ID, comment_content, comment_author, post_title
FROM wp_comments INNER JOIN (wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_post2cat ON wp_posts.ID = wp_post2cat.post_id) ON wp_comments.comment_post_ID = wp_posts.ID
WHERE (((wp_post2cat.category_id)=62));

Make appropriate replacements of table names with php variables

There may be some naming problems with fields.

By: Bryce I

Bryce I — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:45:02 +0000

Kaimi –

IM me.

By: Kaimi Wenger

Kaimi Wenger — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:15:40 +0000

Hi,

Yeah, I guess it would help if you knew the database structure. wp_posts, wp_comments, and wp_post2cat are all tables that are off of the main database, which is wpdb.

Also, thanks for the suggestion (which, alas, isn’t working, though I’m continuing to tinker).

Variations that are also not working:

global $wpdb, $tablecomments, $tableposts, $tablepost2cat;
$request = “SELECT ID, comment_ID, comment_content, comment_author, post_title, FROM $tablecomments LEFT JOIN $tableposts ON $tableposts.ID=$tablecomments.comment_post_ID WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ LEFT JOIN $tablepost2cat ON ($tableposts.ID = $tablepost2cat.post_id) WHERE category_id = ’62′”;

and

SELECT ID, comment_ID, comment_content, comment_author, post_title, FROM $tablecomments LEFT JOIN $tableposts ON $tableposts.ID=$tablecomments.comment_post_ID LEFT JOIN $tablepost2cat ON $tablepost2cat.post_id=$tablecomments.comment_post_ID WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ and category_id = ’62′

and

SELECT ID, comment_ID, comment_content, comment_author, post_title, FROM $tablecomments LEFT JOIN $tableposts ON $tableposts.ID=$tablecomments.comment_post_ID WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ LEFT JOIN $tablepost2cat ON $tablepost2cat.post_id=$tablecomments.comment_post_ID WHERE category_id = ’62′

I’m a pro at generating non-working queries . . .

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:54:23 +0000

Oops. Left something out:

SELECT ID, comment_ID, comment_content, comment_author, post_title, FROM $tablecomments LEFT JOIN $tableposts ON $tableposts.ID=$tablecomments.comment_post_ID
LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat ON wp_post2cat.post_id=$tablecomments.comment_post_ID
WHERE post_status = â€˜publishâ€™ and wp_Post2cat.category_id = â€˜62â€²

Or something like that.

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:53:02 +0000

Given that I’m flying blind in your database, and that I don’t know the structure of your tables, I’m guessing that you’d want to do something like

But, like I said, it’s kind of a stab in the dark. You can string just about as many LEFT JOINs together as you want in these things.