MySQL query search using joins

Question

I have the following tables:

products table
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id
name
...

categories table
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id
name

product_categories table
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product_id
category_id

product_ratings
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product_id
user_id
rating (1 to 5 INT)

How can I select (search) products and rating (average) by Category (name or id) and order them by Title or by rating.

I have tried some queries but im having some trouble on how to join tables and how to use where clause

Answer 1

Do you mean something like that?

select
    products.name, categories.name, product_ratings.rating
from products
join product_categories on products.id = product_categories.product_id
join categories on  categories.id = product_categories.category_id
join product_ratings on product_ratings.product_id = products.id
where
    categories.name = 'CATEGORY NAME'
order by
    product_ratings.rating

Answer 2

select p.name, r.rating
from products as p
inner join product_ratings as  r on p.id = r.product_id
inner join categories as c on c.id = pc.category_id
inner join product_categories as pc = pc.product_id = p.id
where c.name = 'search_name'
order by r.rating;

Answer 3

Method 1

Rating by product and user id

SELECT
P.name, PR.user_id , IFNULL(PR.rating,0) as rating
FROM products P
JOIN product_categories PC ON P.id = PC.product_id
JOIN categories C ON C.id = PC.category_id
JOIN product_ratings PR ON PR.product_id = P.id
WHERE C.name = 'Category A'
ORDER BY P.name

Refer http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/014af/6

Method 2

Rating by product id

Different users will rate the same product, so we have to consider the average rating of each product.

SELECT
P.name, GROUP_CONCAT(PR.user_id) as user_ids, AVG(IFNULL(PR.rating,0)) as rating
FROM products P
JOIN product_categories PC ON P.id = PC.product_id
JOIN categories C ON C.id = PC.category_id
JOIN product_ratings PR ON PR.product_id = P.id
WHERE C.name = 'Category A'
GROUP BY P.id 
ORDER BY P.name

Refer http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/014af/7