Question

I am trying to display items from a table and order them by number of likes. The likes are in another table, and that makes me confused. The first table images looks like this:

images

id   url
1    blablabla.jpg
2    hejhej.png
3    picture.jpg

And the second one, likes, looks like this:

likes

id   image
1    2
2    2
3    1
4    3
5    2

Now I want the images to be ordered by most likes. What do I write in the query to make it look like this?:

hejhej.png - 3 likes
blablabla.jpg - 1 like
picture.jpg - 1 like

I would really appreciate if you could help me with my problem.

Answer 1

SELECT url, COUNT(likes.id) as likes
FROM images, likes
WHERE likes.image = images.id
GROUP BY images.id
ORDER BY likes DESC

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To get records from the last 24 hours only, add this to your query:

WHERE likes.date > DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 DAY)