SQL - Can't figure out how to join three tables - mysql

Question

I have four tables like this:
**USERS**
___________________________
user_ID username password
---------------------------
1 user1 1234
2 user2 5678
**TEAMS**
______________________________________
team_ID formation team_name user_ID
--------------------------------------
1 4-4-2 team1 1
2 4-3-3 team2 2
**PLAYERS**
____________________________________
player_ID name position rating
------------------------------------
1 Ronaldo LW 94
2 Messi RW 93
3 Hazard LW 90
**ACTIVE PLAYERS**
___________________________________
ID player_ID team_ID cardview_ID
-----------------------------------
1 1 2 9
2 3 1 7
3 2 1 3
Each user has a team with a formation and a team name. The "active players" tables references the player_ID with the team_ID to see which players are currently active on which teams.
Let's say that user1 logs in to the application, then I want to get all the players name, ratingand their cardview_ID. Something that should look like this:
_____________________________
name rating cardview_ID
-----------------------------
Hazard 90 7
Messi 94 3
These are the players that are currently active on user1's team which is team1.
How can I get this joined table? I have tried with an inner join but that didn't seem to do the work for me.
_______________________________ EDIT_____________________________________
This is the query that doesn't give the desired result:
SELECT players.name, players.rating, activeplayers.cardview_ID
FROM players
INNER JOIN
activeplayers
ON players.player_ID = usedplayers.player_ID
I also tried to join them on team_ID.

Answer 1

Assuming you have the logged in user's ID available, I think this will give you what you're asking for:
SELECT
[PLAYERS].name,
[PLAYERS].rating,
[ACTIVE PLAYERS].cardview_ID
FROM [TEAMS]
JOIN [ACTIVE PLAYERS]
ON [TEAMS].team_ID = [ACTIVE PLAYERS].team_id
JOIN [PLAYERS]
ON [PLAYERS].player_id = [ACTIVE PLAYERS].player_id
WHERE [TEAMS].user_id = <logged_in_user_id>
Please also note the questions asking for clarifying details, and also feel free to respond if this query gets you part of the way but you need more information. The content in angle brackets are of course a placeholder. I also don't know your exact table names so you may need to replace what is in the square brackets with the actual table names.

Answer 2

Assuming that the query in your post contains a typo and is actually this:
SELECT players.name, players.rating, activeplayers.cardview_ID
FROM players
INNER JOIN
activeplayers
ON players.player_ID = activeplayers.player_ID
This query will correctly return all the players who are active players. Now to limit it only to the team for User1, you need to add an additional join to the Teams table, same way you did the join above, and then add a WHERE clause that filters on the Teams.UserID.
That's it.