Question

I have to three table I need to gather data from in a search process:

Commissions Table – Table1: [affiliate_id]
Affiliates Table – Table2: [id][user_id]
Profiles Table – Table3: [ID][NickName]

The search input I’ll have is someone searched for a username. I need to return the data from table 1 where the affiliate_id matches the user_id of Table2, that is like the nickname that will be searched for.

I hope that makes sense 🙂

Answer 1

Try this:

"select table1.* from table1 
inner join table2 on table2.user_id = table1.affiliate_id 
inner join table3 on table3.id = table2.user_id
where table3.nickname like '%".mysql_real_escape_string($searchtext)."%'"