SELECT * FROM products p LEFT JOIN criteria_values cv ON p.key=cv.key LEFT JOIN criteria c ON cv.key=c.key WHERE c.value IS NOT NULL
Hard to answer without more detail, but I am guessing the answer will be something like the above. Your question makes it hard to understand whether c or cv is joined to p. So swap em around if I misunderstood.
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On Nov 21, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Simcha Younger <simcha@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:54:29 -0700
> "Ben Miller" <biprellim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm building a website for a client in which I need to compare their
>> products, side-by-side, but only include criteria for which all selected
>> products have a value for that criteria.
>>
>> In my database (MySQL), I have a tables named "products","criteria" and
>> "criteria_values"
>>
>> If I have something like
>>
>> $selected_product = array("1"=>"Product 1","2"=>"Product 2"...) // All
>> products selected for comparison by the user
>>
>> I need to get only rows from "criteria" where there is a row in
>> "criteria_values" matching "criteria.criteria_id" for each $selected_product
>> - in other words, if any of the $selected_product does not have a row in
>> "criteria_values" that matches "criteria.criteria_id", that criteria would
>> not be returned. I hope that makes sense.
>
> It would be a lot easier to think about this if you could provide the table structure or create table statements.
>
> If I understood correctly, you have products which reference a criteria ID which has no matching value. If this is the problem you have a to first take care of the integrity of your data, as this should never happen.
>
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