Question

I am making an autosuggesting function, when the user writes something in the field it stores it in:

$queryString = $db->real_escape_string($_POST['queryString']);

I want it to autosuggest after the users friends. The user´s friends is in users_friends, but only the friend´s ID. Now their full_name is in the table “users”. And i want when you search it should in users for the full_name + check if its friends with the user.

As you may understand i do not expect all my users to know eachother id´s so writing e.g “52” “233”, but searching for their full_name s.

UPDATE:

I know tried doing this:
$query = $db->query(“SELECT uf.bID
FROM users friends, users_friends uf
WHERE uf.uID = ‘1’ AND uf.type = ‘friend’ AND friends.full_name LIKE ‘$queryString%’ LIMIT 10;”
);

It selects the bID, from the users friends WHERE the userid is 1 and are friend.

Now i start to see some results i think. When i write a full_name that im friends with, i get the id of the user(the id that is stored in bID). Now i just need to grab the full_name in “users” where id = bID..

table: users
id | full_name

table: users_friends
id | uID | bID

So conclusion of all this (trying to make a better summary in order to make you understand better: )

When you type in e.g Jack in the search field, then the $queryString is now “jack”. Then it is taking “Jack”(full_name in users), grabbing his id(id in users), if he exists there ofcourse, and then match it with bID (in users_friends) where uID is $USER; ($user is the current user that are logged in´s id.)

Hope this was easier to understand, please leave comment if theres something unclear.

Answer 1

So, as i figure it out, you’ve got the current user’s id in $USER and its query string in $queryString, and what you want is the names of the user’s friends based on the $queryString, am I right?

So, assuming the database’s schema is as you’ve put:

table: users
id | full_name

table: users_friends
id | uID | bID

See if this query works out for you, then:

SELECT users.full_name 
FROM users INNER JOIN users_friends ON users.id=users_friends.uID
WHERE bID=$USER AND users.full_name LIKE '$queryString%'
LIMIT 10;

Where $USER and $queryString are your variables.