Join query to count rows with codeigniter

Question

I want to count how many entries of

game_slopes

are in

game_created_slopes

with a specific value for

id_sector

.
Basically I want to know how many slopes have been created for sector 1.

game_slopes

is the table of generic items and

game_created_slopes

is the table of the actual items created by the members.

I tried to make a select query but not sure how to go for the count.

$this->db->select('game_slopes.id_slope, game_slopes.id_sector, game_created_slopes.id_slope, game_created_slopes.id_player');

$this->db->from('game_slopes, game_created_slopes');

$this->db->join('game_created_slopes as created_slopes_tbl', 'game_slopes.id_slope = created_slopes_tbl.id_slope');

$query = $this->db->get();





CREATE TABLE `game_slopes` (

  `id_slope` int(11) NOT NULL,

  `id_sector` int(11) NOT NULL,

  ....more stuff here....

) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;





CREATE TABLE `game_created_slopes` (

  `id_created_slopes` int(11) NOT NULL,

  `id_player` int(11) NOT NULL,

  `id_slope` int(11) NOT NULL,

) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

If there is a better approach I'm up for it!

Answer 1

You can archive this in three ways

In SQL way (Using Count Function)
In Codeigniter way (using num_rows() Function)
In PHP way (using count Function)

In SQL way

$this->db->select('COUNT(game_slopes.id_slope) as totalGames , game_slopes.id_slope, game_slopes.id_sector, game_created_slopes.id_slope, game_created_slopes.id_player');

In Codeigniter way

After $query = $this->db->get(); add this $totalGames = $query->num_rows();

$query = $this->db->get();
$totalGames = $query->num_rows();

In PHP way

$query = $this->db->get();
$result = $query->result_array();
$count = count($result);
if (empty($count)) {
    return false;
} else {
    return $result;
}