Question

Can anyone explain me why the last query returns always 1 row. it should return more than 1 because there’re a lot of records in the database!

Sorry for my bad english

            $query=mysql_query("SELECT book_id FROM ".DB_PREF."books_cats_list WHERE cat_id='".$cat."'");
            if($row=mysql_num_rows($query))
            {

                //fetching all books from $cat category
                for($i=0; $fetch=mysql_fetch_assoc($query); $i++)
                {
                    $records[$i]=$fetch['book_id'];
                }

                //Joining all records in a string for next query
                $records=implode(",",$records);

                //returning num rows if there're book_id records in $records array
                $query=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ".DB_PREF."books WHERE book_id IN ('".$records."')");
                $rows=mysql_num_rows($query);
                echo $rows;

Answer 1

Your query is going to look like this:

SELECT * FROM books WHERE book_id IN ('2,3,4,5')

Note how inside the IN, it’s all one string. This one string will be converted to an int. This happens by stopping at the 1st non-number character. So, the query becomes:

SELECT * FROM books WHERE book_id IN (2)

Try to remove the single quotes inside the IN.

NOTE: If your values aren’t ints, try changing the the implode to: implode("','",$records), and keep the quotes inside the IN.