Question

I want to do a contacts page. Here is my table structure:

Accounts Table: 

1) id
2) User_id
3) Full_name
4) Username
5) Email
6) Password

Contacts Table: 

1) My_id (This is the user who added friend_id)
2) Contact_id (this is the contact who was added by my_id)
3) Status

My query looks something like this:

$sid = ID of user who is viewing;

$sql = "SELECT STRAIGHT_JOIN DISTINCT contacts.contact_id, 
accounts.full_name FROM contacts INNER JOIN accounts
on contacts.contact_id = accounts.user_id WHERE 
contacts.my_id = '$sid' OR contacts.contact_id = '$sid'"; 

The problem is that it doesn’t work the right way. I end up seeing my name in the query (meaning when i login i see my name in the contacts instead of contacts name).

How to fix this? Thanks.

Answer 1

This query ought to suffice:

SELECT DISTINCT contacts.contact_id, accounts.full_name
FROM contacts, accounts
WHERE (contacts.my_id = '$sid' AND contacts.contact_id = accounts.user_id)
OR (contacts.contact_id = '$sid' AND contacts.my_id = accounts.user_id)