Question

How can I change this query to only return rows that return more than 0 rows?

I need to combine these two queries. I need to return rows where the second query returns at least 1 row.

    SELECT albumData.* 
       FROM albumData 
      WHERE userID='$id' 
        AND state='0' 
   ORDER BY date DESC


  SELECT photos.photo 
    FROM albums, photos 
   WHERE albums.userID = '$id' 
     AND albums.photoID = photos.id 
     AND albums.albumID = $albumID 
ORDER BY photos.id DESC LIMIT 6;

EDIT add useful information from comments:

Table albumData containers unique rows, for each user, for each photo
album they have set up, this is where I want to return the number of
rows from initially. However I want to compare the id in albumData to
albumID is albums table, if the number of rows with
albums.albumID=albumData.id is more than one, then return those rows.

Answer 1

next try .. if I understand the problem right

SELECT photos.photo 
FROM albums
INNER JOIN photos on albums.photoID = photos.id 
INNER JOIN albumData ON albumData.id = albums.albumID
WHERE albums.userID = '$id' 
  and albums.albumID = $albumID 
  and albumData.state = '0'
ORDER BY photos.id DESC LIMIT 6;