Question

Table questions has the question id and title.
Table posts has the id, question_id, post.

Is it possible to search for a field in a table using FULLTEXT indexing, and based on the rows value of the question_id field for example, perform a count of posts which have that question id which is being retrieved by sql. JOINS isnt helping me at the moment i’m afraid.

I have discovered the answer, you can select the id AS RESULT_ID and then perform another query with that answer! Thanks for your help, everyone!

Answer 1

first join things up.

select q.question_id, q.title
from question q, post p
where q.question_id = p.question_id

then filter down to the posts you want

select q.question_id, q.title
from question q, post p
where q.question_id = p.question_id
and p.post like '%SEARCHTERM%'

(or full text or whatever)

then count up

select q.question_id, q.title, count( post_id )
from question q, post p
where q.question_id = p.question_id
and p.post like '%SEARCHTERM%'
group by q.question_id, q.title