Question

I have two tables in a database that looks like this

members table1

id | memberid | name | password
-------------------------------

Journal table2

id | memberid | title | desc
-----------------------------

i want to select all members from table one, joining with the result journal_count of each member in table 2. Am trying to count the number of times each memberid appears in table2

Am using mysql and php, can someone help me with this query

thanks

Answer 1

select m.memberid,m.name,count(j.memberid) as total
from members as m
left join journal as j
on m.memberid = j.memberid
group by m.memberid

P.S. If your table has a field named desc, beware that this is a reserved word and it would be better to rename it. Otherwise you’ll always have to put it within backticks.

select m.memberid,m.name,count(j.memberid) as total
from members as m
left join journal as j
on m.memberid = j.memberid
where m.memberid = $memberid
group by m.memberid