How to join the same table twice and assign table aliases in Codeigniter?

Question

I'm trying to make a mail system in Codeigniter with the PyroCms. In my mail table, I have a "recipent" row and a "sender" row which contains the user id of the sender and recipient. To retrieve usernames from the ids, I'm trying to join the table together, but it simply returns me this error:

Error Number: 1066

Not unique table/alias: 'default_users'

 SELECT `default_mailsystem`.*, `default_users`.`username` AS modtager, `default_users`.`username` as afsender FROM (`default_mailsystem`) LEFT JOIN `default_users` ON `default_mailsystem`.`recipent` = `default_modtager`.`id` LEFT JOIN `default_users` ON `default_mailsystem`.`sender` = `default_afsender`.`id` ORDER BY `id` DESC

Filename: /hsphere/local/home/brightmedia/reuseable.dk/modules/mail/models/mail_m.php

Line Number: 13

My code is as follows:

$this->db->select('mailsystem.*, users.username AS modtager, users.username as afsender')
    ->join('users', 'mailsystem.recipent = modtager.id', 'left')
    ->join('users', 'mailsystem.sender = afsender.id', 'left');
$this->db->order_by('id', 'DESC');
return $this->db->get('mailsystem')->result();

The funny thing is, that if I remove the last "join" operation and leave it to only join the recipient of the mail it all works out well.

Answer 1

This is very simple

$this->db->select('mailsystem.*, users.username AS modtager, users.username as afsender')
$this->db->join('users', 'mailsystem.recipent = modtager.id AND mailsystem.sender = afsender.id', 'left')
$this->db->order_by('id', 'DESC');
return $this->db->get('mailsystem')->result();

Answer 2

Have you tried forcing an alias in the join function (the "AS" operator won't work in the select clause as you have it...)?

<?php
$this->db->select('mailsystem.*, modtager.username AS modtager_name, afsender.username as afsender_name')
    ->join('`users` `modtager`', 'mailsystem.recipent = modtager.id', 'left')
    ->join('`users` `afsender`', 'mailsystem.sender = afsender.id', 'left');

$this->db->order_by('mailsystem.id', 'DESC');

return $this->db->get('mailsystem')->result();

Answer 3

Use alias like this -

$this->db->select('mailsystem.*, users_table_a.username AS modtager, users_table_b.username as afsender')
$this->db->join('users users_table_a', 'mailsystem.recipent = users_table_a.id', 'left');
$this->db->join('users users_table_b', 'mailsystem.sender = users_table_b.id', 'left');
$this->db->order_by('id', 'DESC');
return $this->db->get('mailsystem')->result();

Answer 4

Please check Codeigniter ActiveRecord: join backticking ! Similar problem, maybe you will have an idea to a workaround.

Answer 5

you can use this :

$this->db->select('mailsystem.*, users.username AS modtager, users.username as afsender')
$this->db->join('users', 'mailsystem.recipent = modtager.id AND mailsystem.sender = afsender.id', 'left')
$this->db->order_by('id', 'DESC');
return $this->db->get('mailsystem')->result();

* If you are using any db prefix use this *

$this->db->select('mailsystem.*, users.username AS modtager, users.username as afsender')
$this->db->join('users', 'mailsystem.recipent = modtager.id AND '.$this->db->dbprefix('mailsystem').'.sender = '.$this->db->dbprefix('afsender').'.id', 'left')
$this->db->order_by('id', 'DESC');
return $this->db->get('mailsystem')->result();

Answer 6

Its very easy to get data from single table
$this->db->select('a.*,b.fname AS cname,c.fname as uname'); 
$this->db->from('tbl_menus a'); 
$this->db->join('tbl_admin_login b', 'b.id = a.create_by', 'left'); 
$this->db->join('tbl_admin_login c', 'c.id = a.update_by', 'left'); 
$this->db->order_by('a.id', 'desc'); 
return $this->db->get()->result_array();

Answer 7

At the time of this thread, i figured that the codeigniter call missed out the possibility to do AS inside of a join, Therefor this solved the issue:

$sql = "
    SELECT default_mailsystem.*,
           recipent.first_name AS modtager, 
           sender.first_name AS afsender
    FROM default_mailsystem
    LEFT JOIN default_profiles AS recipent ON recipent.id = default_mailsystem.id
    LEFT JOIN default_profiles AS sender ON sender.id = default_mailsystem.id
";
return $this->db->query($sql)->result();

Answer 8

Your can try this Core PHP

SELECT `custome_module`.`id`, `custome_module`.`name`, min(l1.nmark_completed) as call_waiter, min(l2.nmark_completed) as bill, min(l3.nmark_completed) as tray, min(l4.nmark_completed) as ordera
FROM `custome_module`
LEFT JOIN `restaurant_logs` as `l1` ON `custome_module`.`id` = `l1`.`nmodule_id` AND `l1`.`ntype` = 1
LEFT JOIN `restaurant_logs` as `l2` ON `custome_module`.`id` = `l2`.`nmodule_id` AND `l2`.`ntype` = 2
LEFT JOIN `restaurant_logs` as `l3` ON `custome_module`.`id` = `l3`.`nmodule_id` AND `l3`.`ntype` = 6
LEFT JOIN `restaurant_logs` as `l4` ON `custome_module`.`id` = `l4`.`nmodule_id` AND `l4`.`ntype` = 5
WHERE `custome_module`.`nbranch_id` = '142'
GROUP BY `custome_module`.`id`

and also in Codeigniter

$this->db->select('custome_module.id, custome_module.name, min(l1.nmark_completed) as call_waiter, min(l2.nmark_completed) as bill,min(l3.nmark_completed) as tray,min(l4.nmark_completed) as ordera');
$this->db->from("custome_module");
$this->db->join('restaurant_logs as l1', 'custome_module.id = l1.nmodule_id AND l1.ntype = 1', 'left');
$this->db->join('restaurant_logs as l2', 'custome_module.id = l2.nmodule_id AND l2.ntype = 2', 'left');
$this->db->join('restaurant_logs as l3', 'custome_module.id = l3.nmodule_id AND l3.ntype = 6', 'left');
$this->db->join('restaurant_logs as l4', 'custome_module.id = l4.nmodule_id AND l4.ntype = 5', 'left');
$this->db->where('custome_module.nbranch_id', $this->data['user_session']['nid']);
$this->db->get();