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Trouble With Joins


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Hello.For a website I'm making, in order to register, you must know someone that is already registered. Checking to make sure that the "referrer" they entered into the registration field is actually a user is easy enough:

SELECT firstName, lastName FROM users WHERE firstName = '$refFirstName' && lastName = '$refLastName';

Where $refFirstName and $refLastName are the referrer's first and last names, respectively.Here is the layout of the database.Because it is a "private" site (i.e. a limited user base), I was going to make a page that displays all the users and the person that referred them. Simply put, I have no idea how to do it. In the referrers table, refID is always equal to userID. I cannot figure out a way to get the NAME of a user's referrer out of the database in the same SELECT query as everything else. Would I use a LEFT JOIN or INNER JOIN, or something else? Also, is there anyway to combine the referrer table into the user one? Thanks!

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Hi, you already have the idea, but to get the names of the referrers you need two joinsSELECT *FROM users uINNER JOIN referrers r ON u.refID = r.refIDINNER JOIN users ur ON r.userID = ur.userIDusing the table alias you can call the same table more than one time, then the referres' names could use field alias, something like: ur.firstName AS r_firstName that allows to tell apart the name of the user and the referrer's

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