Question

I have 3 tables.

user
    id
    firstname
    lastname
    ...

user_rel_domain
    user_id
    domain_id
    value

domain
    id
    name

I would like to make a search that would match the firstname, the lastname and the domain(s) name(s) if the value in user_rel_domain is higher then 0.

How could I do this in a single MySQL query?

EDIT:

Ok, I though that this idea would be easy to integrate from the 3 tables example, but I actually have 6 tables and I don’t think that the answers can be used for the structure I really have, so here it is, sorry everyone!:

user
    id
    firstname
    lastname
    ...

user_rel_domain
    user_id
    domain_id
    value

domain
    id
    name

user_rel_mandate
    user_id
    mandate_id
    value

mandate
    id
    cat_id
    name

mandate_cat
    id
    name

Basically I want to search in all the “name” columns and the firstname and lastname of the user table while all the value from the relation tables be higher then 0.

Answer 1

EDIT: Hmm… I made a few assumptions about your new requirements, so let me know if this is in the ballpark:

SELECT
    u.firstName,
    u.lastName,
    d.name AS domainName,
    m.name AS mandateName,
    mc.name AS mandateCatName
FROM
    user u
    JOIN user_rel_domain urd ON urd.user_id = u.id AND urd.value > 0
    JOIN domain d ON d.id = urd.domain_id
    JOIN user_rel_mandate urm ON urm.user_id = u.id AND urm.value > 0
    JOIN mandate m ON m.id = urm.mandate_id
    JOIN mandate_cat mc ON mc.id = m.cat_id
WHERE
    u.firstName = @SearchTerm
    OR u.lastName = @SearchTerm
    OR d.Name = @SearchTerm
    OR m.Name = @SearchTerm
    OR mc.Name = @SearchTerm