hye guys i'v a problem with selecting a date from another table. basically i have tables like
1) users table,
2)follow table,
3) photos table, etc.
i'm trying to select the date from photos , but its not working. Here is my mysql query. Here I'm selecting the followers from the follow table where the follower = the user_id
followers_photo.php
$the_user = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '$getuser'");
$tuser=mysql_fetch_array($the_user);
$isuser = mysql_num_rows($the_user);
$tu_id = $tuser['id'];
////users whos following Me
$followers = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM follow WHERE followers ='$tu_id' order by id desc");
$f_s_count = mysql_num_rows($followers);
and here I'm retrieving the photos base on their date and the following id.
index.php
include('func/followers_photos.php');
if($f_s_count > '0')
{
while($uim = mysql_fetch_assoc($followers)){
$i_id = $uim['following'];
$followers_image = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM photos WHERE user_id = '$i_id' order by date");
$disimg = $fimage['img'];
$disid = $fimage['id'];
$distime = $fimage['date'];
$i_like=$fimage['likes'];
//$i_unlike=$fimage['down'];
$likes_ip = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM voting_ip WHERE mes_id_fk = '$disid'");
$ipadd = mysql_fetch_assoc($likes_ip);
$check_likes= $ipadd['mes_id_fk'];
$user_follow_details = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = '$i_id'");
$ufde = mysql_fetch_assoc($user_follow_details);
$uiname = $ufde['username'];
$uinim = $ufde['img'];
$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
ending brackets are after the html code.
above code works but i can't manage to sort the photos base on their date because i'm selecting data from the table base on the id.
here is what i tried so far.
$the_user = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '$getuser'");
$tuser=mysql_fetch_array($the_user);
$isuser = mysql_num_rows($the_user);
$tu_id = $tuser['id'];
////users whos following Me
$followers = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM follow,photos WHERE followers = photos.user_id order by photos.date desc");
$f_s_count = mysql_num_rows($followers);
above code will work but will select all the photos from the database and not from the the following id. what i mean is even the user i don't follow their picture will show.
what i'm trying to accomplish is select from who i follow and sort their photos by the photo date which is stored in photos table. i'm really stuck , anyone could help me out ? your replies are appreciated. sorry for my bad english.
EDIT
now this works as i want but it shows the images multiple times.
$followers = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM follow,photos WHERE photos.user_id = '$tu_id' and follow.followers = photos.user_id order by photos.date desc");
Another Edit
now with this it doesn't display the images multiple times but whenever i post a new image it wont be at the top its still sort them base on the ID. just a little modification on @GonGordon Linoff suggestion
SELECT distinct follow.*
FROM photos join
follow
on follow.followers = photos.user_id
WHERE photos.user_id = $tu_id
order by photos.date desc;