mysql count, distinct, join? COnfusion

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Published on 2010-04-18T15:15:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 15:23 UTC
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hello i have 2 tables:

tblItems 
ID           |     orderID             | productID
1                   1                     2
2                   1                     2
3                   2                     1
4                   3                     2

tblProducts
productID    |     productName
1                   ABC
2                   DEF

im attempting to find the most popular Product based on whats in "tblItems", and display the product Name and the number of times it appears in the tblItems table.

i can get mysql to count up the total like:

$sql="SELECT COUNT(productID) AS CountProductID FROM tblItems";

but i can't figure out how to join the products table on..if i try LEFT JOIN the query goes horribly wrong

hopefully thats not too confusing..thankss

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