JOIN 按照功能大致分为如下三类:
INNER JOIN(内连接,或等值连接):获取两个表中字段匹配关系的记录。
LEFT JOIN(左连接):获取左表所有记录,即使右表没有对应匹配的记录。
RIGHT JOIN(右连接): 与 LEFT JOIN 相反,用于获取右表所有记录,即使左表没有对应匹配的记录。

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `runoob_tbl`;
CREATE TABLE `runoob_tbl` (
`runoob_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`runoob_title` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`runoob_author` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
`submission_date` date DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`runoob_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=6 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
BEGIN;
INSERT INTO `runoob_tbl` VALUES
('1', '学习 PHP', '菜鸟教程', '2017-04-12'),
('2', '学习 MySQL', '菜鸟教程', '2017-04-12'),
('3', '学习 Java', 'RUNOOB.COM', '2015-05-01'),
('4', '学习 Python', 'RUNOOB.COM', '2016-03-06'),
('5', '学习 C', 'FK', '2017-04-05');
COMMIT;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `tcount_tbl`;
CREATE TABLE `tcount_tbl` (
`runoob_author` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`runoob_count` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
BEGIN;
INSERT INTO `tcount_tbl` VALUES
('菜鸟教程', '10'),
('RUNOOB.COM ', '20'),
('Google', '22');
COMMIT;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;
SELECT * FROM tcount_tbl;
+---------------+--------------+
| runoob_author | runoob_count |
+---------------+--------------+
| 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| Google | 22 |
+---------------+--------------+
SELECT * from runoob_tbl;
+-----------+--------------+---------------+-----------------+
| runoob_id | runoob_title | runoob_author | submission_date |
+-----------+--------------+---------------+-----------------+
| 1 | 学习 PHP | 菜鸟教程 | 2017-04-12 |
| 2 | 学习 MySQL | 菜鸟教程 | 2017-04-12 |
| 3 | 学习 Java | RUNOOB.COM | 2015-05-01 |
| 4 | 学习 Python | RUNOOB.COM | 2016-03-06 |
| 5 | 学习 C | FK | 2017-04-05 |
+-----------+--------------+---------------+-----------------+

接下来我们就使用MySQL的INNER JOIN(也可以省略 INNER 使用 JOIN,效果一样)
来连接以上两张表来读取runoob_tbl表中所有runoob_author字段在tcount_tbl
表对应的runoob_count字段值:
SELECT a.runoob_id, a.runoob_author, b.runoob_count
FROM runoob_tbl a INNER JOIN tcount_tbl b ON a.runoob_author = b.runoob_author;
+-----------+---------------+--------------+
| runoob_id | runoob_author | runoob_count |
+-----------+---------------+--------------+
| 1 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 2 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 3 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 4 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
+-----------+---------------+--------------+
以上 SQL 语句等价于:
SELECT a.runoob_id, a.runoob_author, b.runoob_count
FROM runoob_tbl a, tcount_tbl b WHERE a.runoob_author = b.runoob_author;
+-----------+---------------+--------------+
| runoob_id | runoob_author | runoob_count |
+-----------+---------------+--------------+
| 1 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 2 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 3 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 4 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
+-----------+---------------+--------------+

MySQL LEFT JOIN
MySQL left join 与 join 有所不同。 MySQL LEFT JOIN
会读取左边数据表的全部数据,即便右边表无对应数据。
尝试以下实例,以 runoob_tbl 为左表,tcount_tbl 为右表,理解 MySQL LEFT JOIN 的应用:
SELECT a.runoob_id, a.runoob_author, b.runoob_count
FROM runoob_tbl a LEFT JOIN tcount_tbl b ON a.runoob_author = b.runoob_author;
+-----------+---------------+--------------+
| runoob_id | runoob_author | runoob_count |
+-----------+---------------+--------------+
| 1 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 2 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 3 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 4 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 5 | FK | NULL |
+-----------+---------------+--------------+

MySQL RIGHT JOIN
MySQL RIGHT JOIN 会读取右边数据表的全部数据,即便左边边表无对应数据。
实例
尝试以下实例,以 runoob_tbl 为左表,tcount_tbl 为右表,理解MySQL RIGHT JOIN的应用:
SELECT a.runoob_id, a.runoob_author, b.runoob_count
FROM runoob_tbl a RIGHT JOIN tcount_tbl b ON a.runoob_author = b.runoob_author;
+-----------+---------------+--------------+
| runoob_id | runoob_author | runoob_count |
+-----------+---------------+--------------+
| 1 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 2 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 3 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 4 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| NULL | NULL | 22 |
+-----------+---------------+--------------+
以上实例中使用了 RIGHT JOIN,该语句会读取右边的数据表 tcount_tbl
的所有选取的字段数据,即便在左侧表 runoob_tbl 中没有对应的runoob_author 字段值。

在 PHP 脚本中使用 JOIN
PHP 中使用 mysqli_query() 函数来执行 SQL 语句,
你可以使用以上的相同的 SQL 语句作为 mysqli_query() 函数的参数。
尝试如下实例:
<?php
$dbhost = 'localhost:3306'; // mysql服务器主机地址
$dbuser = 'root'; // mysql用户名
$dbpass = '123456'; // mysql用户名密码
$conn = mysqli_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
if(! $conn )
{
die('连接失败: ' . mysqli_error($conn));
}
// 设置编码,防止中文乱码
mysqli_query($conn , "set names utf8");

$sql = 'SELECT a.runoob_id, a.runoob_author, b.runoob_count FROM runoob_tbl a INNER JOIN tcount_tbl b ON a.runoob_author = b.runoob_author';

mysqli_select_db( $conn, 'RUNOOB' );
$retval = mysqli_query( $conn, $sql );
if(! $retval )
{
die('无法读取数据: ' . mysqli_error($conn));
}
echo '<h2>菜鸟教程 MySQL JOIN 测试<h2>';
echo '<table border="1"><tr><td>教程 ID</td><td>作者</td><td>登陆次数</td></tr>';
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($retval, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
echo "<tr><td> {$row['runoob_id']}</td> ".
"<td>{$row['runoob_author']} </td> ".
"<td>{$row['runoob_count']} </td> ".
"</tr>";
}
echo '</table>';
mysqli_close($conn);
?>