Relational MySQL - fetched properties?
- by Kelso.b
I'm currently using the following PHP code:
// Get all subordinates
$subords = array();
$supervisorID = $this->session->userdata('supervisor_id');
$result = $this->db->query(sprintf("SELECT * FROM users WHERE supervisor_id=%d AND id!=%d",$supervisorID, $supervisorID));
$user_list_query = 'user_id='.$supervisorID;
foreach($result->result() as $user){
$user_list_query .= ' OR user_id='.$user->id;
$subords[$user->id] = $user;
}
// Get Submissions
$submissionsResult = $this->db->query(sprintf("SELECT * FROM submissions WHERE %s", $user_list_query));
$submissions = array();
foreach($submissionsResult->result() as $submission){
$entriesResult = $this->db->query(sprintf("SELECT * FROM submittedentries WHERE timestamp=%d", $submission->timestamp));
$entries = array();
foreach($entriesResult->result() as $entries) $entries[] = $entry;
$submissions[] = array(
'user' => $subords[$submission->user_id],
'entries' => $entries
);
$entriesResult->free_result();
}
Basically I'm getting a list of users that are subordinates of a given supervisor_id (every user entry has a supervisor_id field), then grabbing entries belonging to any of those users.
I can't help but think there is a more elegant way of doing this, like SELECT FROM tablename where user->supervisor_id=2222
Is there something like this with PHP/MySQL?
Should probably learn relational databases properly sometime. :(
