Using Count on 'Joined' tables

[danny_m]

Hi there

I have two tables, pages and sections, of which pages are a subset of
sections. I'm listing out the sections in a list and want to include a
COUNT of how many pages each section has within it.

Pages contain a 'sectionid' field to join it to the 'id' in the seciton
table but im unsure how to join, and group to get a count of the
number of pages in each section (i.e. in each result row)

If anyone can point me in the right direction, id be eternally greatful
:-)

[flamer die.spam@hotmail.com]

Re: Using Count on 'Joined' tables


danny_m wrote:

Hi there
>
I have two tables, pages and sections, of which pages are a subset of
sections. I'm listing out the sections in a list and want to include a
COUNT of how many pages each section has within it.
>
Pages contain a 'sectionid' field to join it to the 'id' in the seciton
table but im unsure how to join, and group to get a count of the
number of pages in each section (i.e. in each result row)
>
If anyone can point me in the right direction, id be eternally greatful
:-)

not sure if this is what you need exactly, but if your running two
separate mysql queries on the same page just:

$totalrows = mysql_num_rows( $query1)+mysql_ num_rows($query 2);

Flamer.

[strawberry]

Re: Using Count on 'Joined' tables

flamer die.spam@hotmai l.com wrote:

danny_m wrote:
>

Hi there

I have two tables, pages and sections, of which pages are a subset of
sections. I'm listing out the sections in a list and want to include a
COUNT of how many pages each section has within it.

Pages contain a 'sectionid' field to join it to the 'id' in the seciton
table but im unsure how to join, and group to get a count of the
number of pages in each section (i.e. in each result row)

If anyone can point me in the right direction, id be eternally greatful
:-)

>
not sure if this is what you need exactly, but if your running two
separate mysql queries on the same page just:
>
$totalrows = mysql_num_rows( $query1)+mysql_ num_rows($query 2);
>
Flamer.

the syntax will be along the lines of:

select s.section, sum(p.page) from sections s
left join pages on p.section_id = l.section_id
group by section_id