Filter record base on user and show their status

Hello

I am having a problem which as below and requesting for help.


I have a website where many books content are there. I also have a usergroup who come here to read the books and then base on their choice by using the login system they can make any books content favorite or non favorite etc, so that next time when they comes back and login they can find their previous favorite content. Note that I am storing their favorite contentID in a seperate table.

Now I need to present always to a user with all the books content and only a mark ❤️ will show beside the content that this contentID is in their favorite list and others are not in his favorite list by showing another ❤ .

The problem arise when a user loged in and visit to the page then it shows only the filtered favorite ❤️ datas based on their userID and not showing others non favorite content. I need to present always full content list (favorite and non favorite data of the user) to every user which will show which one is in favorite and which one not, but how to make the joint table query for showing the full content for every seperate user I am lost here. Please guide me.

Below is an example of the tables;


Content Table
==========
contentID
content


User Table
=======
userID
username
userpass


Favorite Table
==========
favID
userID
contentID

You probably just need to use a LEFT OUTER JOIN instead of an INNER JOIN on the favorites table.

I have tried in several way and it seems always the result is coming fully filtered which is only few record as per the users. Attach is the query and the picutre in query builder.

<?php
$useractivity = new WA_MySQLi_RS("useractivity",$hadithbd,20);
$useractivity->setQuery("SELECT users.UserID, users.UserEmail, activity_user.activityID, activity_user.userid, activity_user.itemGroup, activity_user.itemType, activity_user.itemID, hadithmain.HadithID FROM users LEFT OUTER JOIN activity_user ON users.UserID = activity_user.userid LEFT OUTER JOIN hadithmain ON activity_user.itemID = hadithmain.HadithID WHERE users.UserID = ?");
$useractivity->bindParam("i", "".(isset($_SESSION['UserID'])?$_SESSION['UserID']:"") ."", "-1"); //WAQB_Param1
$useractivity->execute();
?>

Which table did you want all of the results from? It should be the first table listed in your query.

The main content table name is hadithmain from where all the data need to show always

Try:

SELECT users.UserID, users.UserEmail, activity_user.activityID, activity_user.userid, activity_user.itemGroup, activity_user.itemType, activity_user.itemID, hadithmain.HadithID
FROM hadithmain
LEFT OUTER JOIN activity_user ON activity_user.itemID = hadithmain.HadithID AND activity_user.userid = ?
LEFT OUTER JOIN users ON users.UserID = activity_user.userid

It shows an error like attachment

Try it without the editor... The sql statement might be too complex for the editor.

Unfortunately that didn't work for me rather I find out another way where instead of joing table query I show/hide base on matching from the parent table and it solved my problem. Thanks for your support.