Question

I am trying to load all records from the database that have been created by the current logged on user in Joomla, im not sure if its possible to have php inside a mysql query though ?, if not how would I go about doing this otherwise ?

SELECT
  leadname,
  businessname,
  postcode,
  gasoiluser,
  dervuser,
  kerouser,
  cf_uid,
  cf_id
FROM
  #__chronoforms_data_addupdatelead
WHERE createdby = '<?php
  $user =& JFactory::getUser(); echo $user->get('name') ; ?>'
ORDER BY cf_created DESC

Answer 1

Of course you can access PHP variables for creating the query – as the #__ prefix suggests, you’re already running your query from “inside Joomla”. Which means it is in php, and something like this should do what you want:

$user =& JFactory::getUser();
$db =& JFactory::getDBO();
if (!$user->guest) {
    $query = 'SELECT leadname, businessname, postcode, gasoiluser, '.
        ' dervuser, kerouser, cf_uid, cf_id '.
        ' FROM #__chronoforms_data_addupdatelead '.
        ' WHERE createdby = '.$db->Quote($user->name)).
        ' ORDER BY cf_created DESC';
    $db->setQuery($query);
}

But a little more context would help us see what you’ll have to do exactly – what’s the code around the SQL query – is it in a php file?

Remember, echo prints to the Response, which is not what you want to do in this case, you want to change the query; so just concatenate the variable content to your query, as shown above; and you should actually be already be in php mode where this query is defined, so the <?php tag is of no use (but again, too few context to be sure about this)!