Making a sub-query on query results?

Question

How do I unite these two?

This query:

SELECT f1.asked_user_id AS friend_id
    FROM friends AS f1 JOIN friends AS f2
    ON f1.asked_user_id = f2.asker_user_id
    AND f1.asker_user_id = f2.asked_user_id
    AND f1.asker_user_id = :user_id
WHERE f1.status = 1 AND f2.status = 1

With:

(SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(words_en.word) FROM connections JOIN words_en ON connections.word_id = words_en.id WHERE connections.user_id = friends.friend_id) As friend_words

And do yet another join:

JOIN users ON friends.friend_id = users.id

I've tried few things here: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!2/85d6d/36

First query selects two way friends from the table. I get friend_id from that query. Now I want to know more about this friend_id. So I want to use this id to do another query that would display all word_ids from connections table by that user, word_ids can be used to get actual words from words_en. And lastly, I want to get users name_surname from users table.

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT a.name_surname,GROUP_CONCAT(Distinct w.word Order by w.word asc) AS words
FROM (
  SELECT f1.asked_user_id AS friend_id,
       f1.created,
       u.name_surname,
       u.avatar
  FROM friends AS f1 
  INNER JOIN friends AS f2 ON f1.asked_user_id = f2.asker_user_id
  INNER JOIN users AS u ON f1.asked_user_id = u.id
       AND f1.asker_user_id = f2.asked_user_id
       AND f1.asker_user_id = 1
  WHERE f1.status = 1 AND f2.status = 1
) a
LEFT JOIN connections c ON c.user_id = a.friend_id 
LEFT JOIN words_en w ON c.word_id = w.id
GROUP BY 1;

sqlfiddle demo

Having your original query, what i did is treat that query as a table (a) and LEFT JOIN it with connections table. Then, LEFT JOIN the connections table with the words_en table to reach the desired words. This makes it possible to get all users that return from your original query, even when there are no connections/words.