Question

I’m not sure what I’m trying to do is possible but I’ve been trying to get different methods to a solution I need but so far I’ve come up empty handed.

Lets say I have 2 tables (just an example, in my case theres a hell of a lot more + alot more data)

One called clients and the other called form_data.
We have multiple clients in the clients table and in the form_data table we have multiple rows for each company present in the clients table. In form_data we store the serialized data from different forms. (id and data)

I’m currently pulling all records from the form_data table and I am trying to use a regexp on the data column to filter for instance that the value ‘motor oil’ is found in them.

I would like a way to do this filter but filter the company and not the forms .. so I want to find the forms that have ‘motor oil’ in them and the remove all entries for COMPANIES that don’t have this match, but I want to keep all the forms showing for the companies that match.

I can post my query but it is rather long and i think if we can solve the above it should be sufficient for me to implement into the actual query.

Regards

EDIT:

SELECT f.form_question_has_answer_id AS f__form_question_has_answer_id, f.form_question_has_answer_request AS f__form_question_has_answer_request, 
f.form_question_has_answer_form_id AS f__form_question_has_answer_form_id, f.form_question_has_answer_user_id AS f__form_question_has_answer_user_id, 
p.project_company_has_user_id AS p__project_company_has_user_id, p.project_company_has_user_project_id AS p__project_company_has_user_project_id, 
p.project_company_has_user_user_id AS p__project_company_has_user_user_id, c.company_id AS c__company_id, c.company_hall_no AS c__company_hall_no, 
c.company_type AS c__company_type, c.company_company_name AS c__company_company_name, c.company_country AS c__company_country, 
c.company_stand_number AS c__company_stand_number, c.company_image_file_1 AS c__company_image_file_1, p2.project_id AS p2__project_id, 
p2.project_name AS p2__project_name, u.user_id AS u__user_id, u.user_username AS u__user_username, f2.form_id AS f2__form_id 
FROM form_question_has_answer f 
INNER JOIN project_company_has_user p ON f.form_question_has_answer_user_id = p.project_company_has_user_user_id 
INNER JOIN company c ON p.project_company_has_user_company_id = c.company_id 
INNER JOIN project p2 ON p.project_company_has_user_project_id = p2.project_id 
INNER JOIN user u ON p.project_company_has_user_user_id = u.user_id 
INNER JOIN form f2 ON p.project_company_has_user_project_id = f2.form_project_id 
WHERE f.form_question_has_answer_id IN ('19262', '21560', '23088', '22660', '14772', '18495', '18720', '21625', '19957', '20943') 
AND ((f2.form_template_name = "custom" AND p.project_company_has_user_garbage_collection = 0 AND p.project_company_has_user_project_id = 29) AND f.form_question_has_answer_request REGEXP 'item-cadcae') 
ORDER BY company_company_name asc

The query is from a doctrine query.

EDIT:
If i have a company with 10 forms in the form_data table if i filter by ‘motor oil’ all forms for that company that don’t have motor oil are removed.. so if only 1 of the 10 forms for company id 144 has the word motor oil then the other 9 forms are lost in the query.. I want to keep them. What I want is any company that didn’t find any forms with that match (motor oil) to have all their forms removed from the search.

Answer 1

All form data for all customers who have at least one form that matches the search:

SELECT * FROM `form_data`
WHERE `clientid` IN (
  SELECT DISTINCT `clientid` FROM `form_data`
  WHERE `data` RLIKE '[[:<:]]motor oil[[:>:]]'
);