select "all" and at the same time select "individually" in mysql

Question

I have three simple tables: users, profile and watched, which contains users' id and their watched movie titles.

and the script below displays the matched values with different users from the table watched:

$id = $_SESSION['id'];
echo "my id: $id\n";

$movies = mysqli_query($connect, "SELECT w1.users_id AS user1, 
                                         w2.users_id AS user2, 
                                         COUNT(w2.watched) AS num_movies, 
                                         GROUP_CONCAT(w2.watched ORDER BY w2.watched) AS movies
                                  FROM watched w1
                                  JOIN watched w2 ON w2.watched = w1.watched AND w2.users_id != w1.users_id
                                  WHERE w1.users_id = $id
                                  GROUP BY user1, user2");
while ($row = $movies->fetch_assoc()) {
    echo "matched with id {$row['user2']} {$row['num_movies']} times on titles {$row['movies']}\n";
}

output:

my id = `1`;
matched with id `2` 2 times on titles `movie2`, `movie1`;
matched with id `3` 1 times on titles `movie1`;

demo on fiddle

BUT I want to also display the users' names, profiles and so on. like in this query: SELECT * FROM profile INNER JOIN users ON profile.users_id = users.id

how can I merge the first and the second queries?

tried:

SELECT *, w2.watched, 
COUNT(w2.watched) AS num_movies, 
GROUP_CONCAT(w2.watched order by w2.watched) as movies

FROM profile AS p 
JOIN users AS u ON p.users_id = u.id 
LEFT JOIN watched AS w ON w.users_id = u.id and w.watched=w2.watched
     WHERE u.id != $id
     GROUP BY w.users_id

but it's not working.

Answer 1

To fetch the raw data you want, you just need to JOIN the users and profile tables to the existing query, once for each user:

SELECT w1.users_id AS id1,
       u1.name AS user1,
       u1.email AS user1_email,
       p1.about AS user1_about,
       w2.users_id AS id2,
       u2.name AS user2,
       u2.email AS user2_email,
       p2.about AS user2_about,
       COUNT(w2.watched) AS num_movies, 
       GROUP_CONCAT(w2.watched ORDER BY w2.watched) AS movies
FROM watched w1
JOIN watched w2 ON w2.watched = w1.watched AND w2.users_id != w1.users_id
JOIN users u1 ON u1.id = w1.users_id
JOIN profile p1 ON p1.users_id = u1.id
JOIN users u2 ON u2.id = w2.users_id
JOIN profile p2 ON p2.users_id = u2.id
WHERE w1.users_id = 1
GROUP BY id1, user1, user1_email, user1_about, id2, user2, user2_email, user2_about

Output:

id1 user1   user1_email     user1_about         id2 user2   user2_email     user2_about         num_movies  movies
1   name1   email1@mail.com something about me  2   name2   email2@mail.com something about me  2           movie1,movie2
1   name1   email1@mail.com something about me  3   name3   email3@mail.com something about me  1           movie1

Demo on dbfiddle

In PHP you might then do something like:

$id = $_SESSION['id'];
$first = true;
$movies = mysqli_query($connect, "... the query above ...");
while ($row = $movies->fetch_assoc()) {
    if ($first) {
        echo "User {$row['user1']} ({$row['user1_email']}, {$row['user1_about']}):\n";
        $first = false;
    }
    echo "matched with {$row['user2']} ({$row['user2_email']}) {$row['num_movies']} times on titles {$row['movies']}\n";
}

Answer 2

Put the join with profile after the join with watched that gets the other user's ID.

SELECT p.*, w2.watched, 
COUNT(*) AS num_movies, 
GROUP_CONCAT(w2.watched order by w2.watched) as movies
FROM watched AS w1
JOIN watched w2 ON w2.watched = w1.watched AND w2.users_id != w1.users_id
JOIN users AS u ON u.id = w2.users_id
JOIN profile AS p ON p.users_id = u.id
WHERE w1.users_id = $id
GROUP BY w2.users_id

Answer 3

Try this

    SELECT w1.users_id AS user1,u.name as name, p.*, u.*, w2.users_id 
    AS user2, COUNT(w2.watched) AS num_movies, 
    GROUP_CONCAT(w2.watched ORDER BY w2.watched) AS movies 
    FROM watched w1 
    JOIN watched w2 ON w2.watched = w1.watched 
    AND w2.users_id != w1.users_id 
    JOIN users u ON u.id=w1.users_id 
    JOIN profile p ON p.users_id=w1.users_id 
    WHERE w1.users_id =1 GROUP BY user1, user2

OUTPUT