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britus

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I have two table -
categories - cat-id, cat-title
posts - post-id, post-cat-id, post-title

I want to search through all rows in 'posts' and get the number of posts based on each category in 'categories',  echo 'cat-title' - number of posts

if no posts then echo 'cat-title' - "no posts".

posts are assigned a post-cat-id relative to cat-id.

I tried using joins WHERE cat-id = post-cat-id AND cat-title = 'a-category' but that only shows results when posts are assigned 'a-category'.

If that category does not exist in 'posts' then nothing shows

How, in your opinion, should I approach this?

Thanks

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Thanks for that. I'll give it a go this evening.

What did you mean by "I would also recommend using using valid column names"? I was trying to keep everything descriptive so I have a better understanding of what I am learning.

Thanks

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