MYSQL - output extra column based on a certain condition - mysql

Question

At first, I want to apologize for providing such a weak title; I couldn't describe it in a better way.
Consider the following: We have three tables, one for users, one for records and one for ratings. The tables are quite self-explanatory but the schema for database is as following:
+---------------------+
| Tables_in_relations |
+---------------------+
| records |
| ratings |
| users |
+---------------------+
The schema for records table is as following:
+----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id | smallint(5) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| title | varchar(256) | NO | | NULL | |
| year | int(4) | NO | | NULL | |
+----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
The schema for users table is as following:
+----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id | smallint(5) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| email | varchar(256) | NO | | NULL | |
| name | varchar(256) | NO | | NULL | |
| password | varchar(256) | NO | | NULL | |
+----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
ratings table is, obvoiusly, where the ratings are stored among with the record_id and user_id and works as a relation table.
It's schema is as following:
+----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id | smallint(5) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| record_id| smallint(5) unsigned | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| user_id | smallint(5) unsigned | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| rating | int(1) | NO | | NULL | |
+----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
Now, In my application, I have a search function that fetches records based on a certain keyword. The output should also include the average rating of a certain record and a total amount of ratings per record. This can be accomplished by following query:
SELECT re.id, re.title, re.year, ROUND(avg(ra.rating)) as avg_rate,
COUNT(ra.record_id) as total_times_rated
FROM records re
LEFT JOIN ratings ra ON ra.record_id = re.id
GROUP BY re.id;
which will give me the following output:
+----+------------------------+------+----------+-------------------+
| id | title | year | avg_rate | total_times_rated |
+----+------------------------+------+----------+-------------------+
| 1 | Test Record 1 | 2008 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | Test Record 2 | 2012 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Test Record 3 | 2003 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Test Record 4 | 2012 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | Test Record 5 | 2003 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Test Record 6 | 2006 | 2 | 3 |
+----+------------------------+------+----------+-------------------+
Question:
Now, here comes the tricky part, at least for me. Within my app, you can search records whether signed in or not and if signed in, I'd also like to include the user's own rating value in the above query.
I know that I can run a conditional to check whether user is signed in or not by reading the session value and execute a corresponding query based on that. I just don't know how to include that individual rating value of a certain user to the above query.

Answer 1

You can add user's rating in the result by adding a SELECT query in columns:
SELECT re.id, re.title, re.year, ROUND(avg(ra.rating)) as avg_rate,
COUNT(ra.record_id) as total_times_rated,
(SELECT rating FROM ratings WHERE user_id = ? AND record_id = re.id) as user_rating
FROM records re
LEFT JOIN ratings ra ON ra.record_id = re.id
GROUP BY re.id;
We can get the user_id from session and pass it to this query in order to generate user_rating column in the result.
Assuming user can rate a record multiple times, I have used SUM. If not, we can remove it from the query.
Update
If you don't want GROUP BY to consider that value then you can wrap the existing query into another query and add a column to it, e.g.:
SELECT a.id, a.title, a.year, a.avg_rate, a.total_times_rated,
(SELECT rating FROM ratings WHERE user_id = ? AND record_id = a.id) as user_rating
FROM (SELECT re.id as id, re.title as title, re.year as year, ROUND(avg(ra.rating)) as avg_rate,
COUNT(ra.record_id) as total_times_rated
FROM records re
LEFT JOIN ratings ra ON ra.record_id = re.id
GROUP BY re.id) a;