Question

This is the query. Im mostly interested if there is a better way to grab the stuff I use GROUP_CONCAT for, or if thats a fairy good way of grabbing this data. I then explode it, and put the ids/names into an array, and then use a for loop to echo them out.

SELECT 
    mov_id, 
    mov_title, 
    GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT categories.cat_name) as all_genres, 
    GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT cat_id) as all_genres_ids,  
    GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT case when gen_dominant = 1 then gen_catid else 0 end) as dominant_genre_ids, 
    GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT actors.act_name) as all_actors, 
    GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT actors.act_id) as all_actor_ids, 
    mov_desc, 
    mov_added, 
    mov_thumb, 
    mov_hits, 
    mov_numvotes, 
    mov_totalvote, 
    mov_imdb, 
    mov_release, 
    mov_html, 
    mov_type,
    mov_buytickets,
    ep_summary,
    ep_airdate,
    ep_id,
    ep_hits,
    ep_totalNs,
    ep_totalRs,
    mov_rating,
    mov_rating_reason,
    mrate_name,
    dir_id, 
    dir_name
FROM movies
LEFT JOIN _genres
    ON movies.mov_id = _genres.gen_movieid
LEFT JOIN categories
    ON _genres.gen_catid = categories.cat_id
LEFT JOIN _actors
    ON (movies.mov_id = _actors.ac_movid)
LEFT JOIN actors
    ON (_actors.ac_actorid = actors.act_id AND act_famous = 1)
LEFT JOIN directors
    ON movies.mov_director = directors.dir_id
LEFT JOIN movie_ratings
    ON movies.mov_rating = movie_ratings.mrate_id
LEFT JOIN episodes
    ON mov_id = ep_showid AND ep_season = 0 AND ep_num = 0
WHERE mov_id = *MOVIE_ID* AND mov_status = 1 
GROUP BY mov_id

EXPLAIN of the query is here

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Answer 1

Personally, I would try to break the query up into multiple queries. Mostly I would recommend removing the Actor and Genre Joins so that you can get rid of all those group_concat functions. Then do separate queries to pull this data out. Not sure if it would speed things up, but it’s probably worth a shot.