Question

I use a query like :

$querym = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM allmembers a LEFT JOIN favorites f ON (f.memberid=a.memberid) order by f.date desc LIMIT 10");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($querym,MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$dataArray[$row['memberid']][$row['favoriteid']]=$row;
} 

My purpose is getting 10 members with their last 5 favorites in an array. but as you can guess this query getting 10 row included with favorites. That means if a member have 15 favorites it only gets one member with 10 favorites instead of 10 members with his favorites.

I couldn’t find an easy way to limit getting favorites for each member in that query. How can I limit?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

1. This is not MYSQL FETCH ARRAY LIMITATION, this is your QUERY limitation.

2. Try something of your own on these lines :

   SELECT memberid,group_concat(favorites_field) FROM allmembers a LEFT JOIN favorites f ON (f.memberid=a.memberid) group by a.memberid order by f.date desc LIMIT 10