Question

I have the following query that selects a friend request script that shows the profile pic, the hometown, the userid, and the full name of a user that has requested to be friends with a certain user.

SELECT 
    a.hometown, 
    a.first_name, 
    a.uid, 
    a.last_name, 
    b.friend_one, 
    b.friend_two, 
    b.friend_request_id, 
    p.thumbnail 
FROM 
    users a, 
    friend_requester b, 
    profile_pics p 
WHERE 
    a.uid = b.friend_one 
AND b.friend_two = $uid 
AND p.uid_fk = $uid 
ORDER BY b.created DESC LIMIT 5

My problem is that instead of returning 1 user for each query found in the friend_requester table, I return 3 instances for example of the same user with different profile pictures. So if a user has uploaded 3 profile pictures which will be stored as

id=1, profile_pic=profile_pic1.jpg...

id=1 profile_pic=profile_pic2.jpg... 

id=1 profile_pic=profile_pic3.jpg...

I get 3 different boxes of the same user asking to be friends with the logged-in user.

As Hituptony mentioned, I would want to select the latest inserted picture which would be from the ‘profile_pics’ table in the column ‘created’.

Answer 1

GROUP BY Uid_FK, get the max created and INNER join back to the picture table (done in my subquery called “MaxPic”)

SELECT  a.hometown, 
        a.first_name, 
        a.uid, 
        a.last_name, 
        b.friend_one, 
        b.friend_two, 
        b.friend_request_id, 
        p.thumbnail 
FROM    users a
        INNER JOIN friend_requester b 
            ON b.friend_one = a.uid
        INNER JOIN profile_pics p 
            ON p.uid_fk = b.frind_two
        INNER JOIN
        (   SELECT  uid_FK, MAX(Created) AS Created
            FROM    Profile_Pics
            GROUP BY uid_FK
        ) MaxPic
            ON MaxPic.UID_FK = p.UID_FK
            AND MaxPic.Created = p.Created
WHERE   p.uid_fk = $uid