Wordpress users and usermeta - joining multiple rows in one table to one row in another table

Question

I want to create a view from both the wp_users and wp_usermeta tables so that I can query rows in the view from an external application. Basic auth details are stored in wp_user

Answer 1

As far as I know, you are doing it the right way and just need to put them all together:

SELECT
    u1.id,
    u1.login,
    u1.password,
    u1.email,
    m1.meta_value AS firstname,
    m2.meta_value AS lastname,
    m3.meta_value AS country
FROM wp_users u1
JOIN wp_usermeta m1 ON (m1.user_id = u1.id AND m1.meta_key = 'first_name')
JOIN wp_usermeta m2 ON (m2.user_id = u1.id AND m2.meta_key = 'last_name')
JOIN wp_usermeta m3 ON (m3.user_id = u1.id AND m3.meta_key = 'country')
WHERE
    -- CONDITIONS ON the user you want to select based any field

Answer 2

I found that Toote's solution works but is a performance hog on a MySQL database taking about 17 seconds to execute a "select * from users_with_meta_view".

I got this down to 0.0054 sec with a view structured like this instead:

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW users_with_meta_view AS
SELECT
    u.id,
    u.user_login AS login,
    u.user_pass AS password,
    u.user_email AS email,
    (select meta_value from wp_usermeta where user_id = u.id and meta_key = 'first_name' limit 1) as first_name,
    (select meta_value from wp_usermeta where user_id = u.id and meta_key = 'last_name' limit 1) as last_name,
    (select meta_value from wp_usermeta where user_id = u.id and meta_key = 'country' limit 1) as country
FROM wp_users u

Answer 3

$sql= "SELECT
       u1.parent_id,
       m1.meta_value AS headline,
       m2.meta_value AS profilephoto
       FROM wp_vandor u1
       JOIN wp_usermeta m1 ON (m1.user_id = u1.child_id AND m1.meta_key = 'headline')
       JOIN wp_usermeta m2 ON (m2.user_id = u1.child_id AND m2.meta_key = 'profilephoto')
       WHERE m1.user_id != $currentuser_id";

$classifieds = $wpdb->get_results($sql);

foreach ($classifieds as $classified) { ?>
     <p><?php echo $classified->profilephoto; ?></p>
     <h3><?php echo $classified->headline; ?></h3>
<?php } ?>