Question

Please can anyone tell me what’s wrong with this MySQL query

SELECT count(items.id) AS numrows 
FROM items, subcategories 
WHERE items.`base_school` = 'UNN' 
    AND items.subcategory = subcategories.id 
    AND subcategories.parent_category = 3 
JOIN `item_images` 
    ON items.id=`item_images`.`item_id`

It keeps throwing up this error:

#1064 – You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use
near ‘JOIN item_images ON items.id=item_images.item_id‘ at line
1

Answer 1

You have the WHERE clause in the wrong location, try this:

SELECT count(items.id) AS numrows 
FROM items
INNER JOIN subcategories 
    ON items.subcategory = subcategories.id 
INNER JOIN item_images 
    ON items.id=item_images.item_id
WHERE items.base_school = 'UNN' 
    AND subcategories.parent_category = 3