Question

Hi I am currently coding something which requires an if before the results are retrieved from the database.

The case is that if the interacterID is not NULL then filter by it, see below

SELECT *
FROM status
WHERE type != "3"
AND userID = "'.$userID.'"
AND 
(
    interacterID IN ( #IF interacterID is null I want to skip this AND
        SELECT userID
        FROM userFriends
        WHERE (
            userFriends.userID = "'.$currentUserID.'"
            OR userFriends.interacterID = "'.$currentUserID.'"
        )
        AND status = "1"
    )
)
ORDER BY addedDate DESC
LIMIT 1

Thanks in advance for the help.

Answer 1

If I’m reading this right, I’m not sure you need an IF here (which can be done). A simple IS NULL and OR can be used for the two cases:

SELECT *
FROM status
WHERE type != "3"
AND userID = "'.$userID.'"
AND 
(
    interacterID IS NULL OR interacterID IN (
        SELECT userID
        FROM userFriends
        WHERE (
            userFriends.userID = "'.$currentUserID.'"
            OR userFriends.interacterID = "'.$currentUserID.'"
        )
        AND status = "1"
    )
)
ORDER BY addedDate DESC
LIMIT 1