Question

I have tables as below.

Table Messages

message_id
parent_id
forum_id
user_id

Table Users

user_id
username
pass

How to query a user, and display the count of their messages with their username?

My query:

select count(subject), user_id from messages group by user_id;

The problem is that it only displays user_id and count of messages but no username. How do I make it display the name of the user?

Answer 1

I think this is the query you want.

$query = "SELECT u.username, COUNT(*) as total_count FROM messages m INNER JOIN users u ON m.user_id = u.user_id GROUP BY U.user_id"

Here total_count gives the total count of messages grouped by user id to avoid joining of same usernames.