Please help me understand the correct join syntax.
I have a table called inventory that has:
trans_id
trans_items items -> item_id
trans_user employees -> person_id
trans_date
trans_comment
trans_inventory
As you can see above, trans_items is the foreign key in the element table, and trans_user is the foreign key in the employee table, and the employee identifier is the foreign key for the people table.
Now what I want to do is display the inventory table in the HTML, but instead of displaying the employee ID, I want the employee ID to be displayed.
EDIT ................................................ therefore I was turned on to display only the last employee name using this code:
$this->db->select('inventory.*, items.name ,people.last_name');
$this->db->from('inventory');
$this->db->join('items', 'inventory.trans_items = items.item_id' , 'left');
$this->db->join('people', 'inventory.trans_user = people.person_id' , 'left');
$this->db->where('deleted', 0);
$this->db->order_by('trans_date desc');
with model code:
foreach($report_data as $row)
{
$tabular_data[] = array($row['name'], $row['last_name'],$row['trans_date'], $row['trans_inventory'], $row['trans_comment']);
}
but I need this first and last name, so I did this:
$this->db->select('inventory.*, items.name ,CONCAT(people.first_name, " ",people.last_name) as employee');
$this->db->from('inventory');
$this->db->join('items', 'inventory.trans_items = items.item_id' , 'left');
$this->db->join('people', 'inventory.trans_user = people.person_id' , 'left');
$this->db->where('deleted', 0);
$this->db->order_by('trans_date desc');
with model code:
foreach($report_data as $row)
{
$tabular_data[] = array($row['name'], $row['employee'],$row['trans_date'], $row['trans_inventory'], $row['trans_comment']);
}
, concat. , .