JOIN + IF clause

[sader]

Hi

I dont't understand joins very well but in this case I'm  confused even more...

I have three tables user, anonym, post

 

"Post"

id

[Maq]

Hi

I dont't understand joins very well but in this case I'm  confused even more...

I have three tables user, anonym, post

 

"Post"

id

 

I assume you didn't finish editing your post, until then it's impossible for us to help.  And if you did finish editing, than it's still impossible.

[sader]

continue...

 

Hi

I don't understand joins very well but in this case I'm  confused even more...

I have three tables: user, anonym, post

 

Table: user

id|name|email |points

1 |Adam|A@A.xx|100   

2 |Lacy|L@L.xx|16   

3 |Cody|C@C.xx|1720 

 

Table: anonym

id|name|

1 |Rose

 

Table: post

id|text|author_type|author_id

1 |aaaa|R          |1       

2 |bbbb|R          |3       

3 |cccc|A          |1       

 

Now I want to retrive data about post on specific id and data(which sometimes is stored in table "user" and sometimes in table 'anonym") about author of the post.

 

Let's take post with ID=3, query should return

post.id=3

post.text=cccc

post.author_type=A (A stands for anonym)

post.author_id=1

anonym.id=1

anonym.name=Rose

 

with ID=2

 

post.id=2

post.text=bbbb

post.author_type=R (R stands for registered user)

post.author_id=1

user.id=1

user.name=Cody

user.email=C@C.xx

user.points=1720

 

I tried various  queries which I could come across the last one look'd something like this:

SELECT * FROM post,user,anonym WHERE post.id=1 AND IF(post.author_type='R', SELECT * FROM user ..., SELECT * FROM anonym...)

but of course it failed since even syntax is incorrect