I'm new posting here but the community have been my best resource on my projects so far. I'm a dumb/dummy Mysql "wanna be" and I'm in the middle of a project that is making me go mad.
I have a table from wordpress plugin buddypress that pairs meta_key and meta_values in order to create something akin to a taxonomy. My duty is to use these paired values to implement an advanced group search. Here is the original table:
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id | group_id | meta_key | meta_value
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1 | 1 | time-zone | Kwajalein
2 | 1 | playstyle | hardcore
3 | 1 | recruiting-status | Open
4 | 1 | ilvl | 115
5 | 1 | main-raid | Final Coil of Bahamut
6 | 1 | voicechat | fc.teamspeak3.com
etc....
Using a view I managed to create a more friendly searchable table for begginers :
gid| time-zone| playstyle | main-raid
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1 | | |
1 |Kwajalein | |
1 | | hardcore |
1 | | |
1 | | | Final Coil of Bahamut
1 | | |
And here is the view code:
SELECT distinct
group_id AS 'gid',
IF(meta_key='recruiting-status',meta_value,'') AS 'Recruitment',
IF(meta_key='server',meta_value,'') AS 'server',
IF(meta_key='time-zone',meta_value,'') AS 'tzone',
IF(meta_key='main-raid',meta_value,'') AS 'raid',
IF(meta_key='raid-days',meta_value,'') AS 'days',
IF(meta_key='playstyle',meta_value,'') AS 'playstyle',
IF(meta_key='raid-progression',meta_value,'') AS 'progression',
IF(meta_key='raid-time',meta_value,'') AS 'time',
IF(meta_key='tanker-spot',meta_value,'') AS 'tank',
IF(meta_key='healer-spot',meta_value,'') AS 'healer',
IF(meta_key='melee-dps-spot',meta_value,'') AS 'melee',
IF(meta_key='ranged-dps-spot',meta_value,'') AS 'ranged',
IF(meta_key='magic-dps-spot',meta_value,'') AS 'magic',
IF(meta_key='ilvl',meta_value,'') AS 'ilvl',
IF(meta_key='voicechat',meta_value,'') AS 'voice',
IF(meta_key='voicechatpass',meta_value,'') AS 'voicep',
FROM wpstatic_bp_groups_groupmeta
The point is, I need to merge that result (view) so all the group_id=1 or 2 or 3, etc stand in one single row, like this:
gid| time-zone| playstyle | main-raid
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1 |Kwajalein | hardcore | Final Coil of Bahamut
2 |SaoPaulo | regular | Second Coil of Bahamut
etc
Can anyone help me there?
Just surround your IFs in a MAX, or another aggregate function that will capture the non-empty strings (e.g., GROUP_CONCAT), and add a GROUP BY group_id add the end. For example,
SELECT
group_id AS gid,
MAX(IF(meta_key='recruiting-status',meta_value,'')) AS 'Recruitment',
MAX(IF(meta_key='server',meta_value,'')) AS 'server',
...
FROM wpstatic_bp_groups_groupmeta
GROUP BY group_id