Question

I have 3 tables. An "item" table and a "tag" table. Then I also have an "item_tag" table which ties the 2 together.

I want to make a query that lists all the items that have particular tags assigned to it. So I would like the query to list all items that have tag x and tag y applied to it.

This is what I have come up with so far.. except that this will list any that match either tag id 148 or tag id 152. If I make it say "AND" it shows no results.

SELECT *
FROM (`item`)
RIGHT OUTER JOIN `item_tag` ON `item`.`id` = `item_tag`.`fk_item_id`
WHERE `item_tag`.`fk_tag_id` = "152" OR `item_tag`.`fk_tag_id` = "148"
GROUP BY `item`.`id`

Answer 1

You can get ids of the items that have all of the tags you want using this query:

SELECT fk_item_id
FROM item_tag
WHERE fk_tag_id IN (5,10,15)
GROUP BY fk_item_id
HAVING COUNT(*) = 3

And then just

SELECT * 
FROM item 
WHERE id 
IN 
(
    SELECT fk_item_id
    FROM item_tag
    WHERE fk_tag_id IN (5,10,15)
    GROUP BY fk_item_id
    HAVING COUNT(*) = 3
)

You just have to modify the ids and the 3 which is the count of those ids.

When your table does not have UNIQUE constraint (it should have) and there can be the same tags in particular item you should modify the query to this:

SELECT * 
FROM item 
WHERE id 
IN 
(
    SELECT fk_item_id
    FROM ( SELECT DISTINCT fk_item_id, fk_tag_id FROM item_tag ) someAlias
    WHERE fk_tag_id IN (5,10,15)
    GROUP BY fk_item_id
    HAVING COUNT(*) = 3
)