• Be assumption that we have schema structure for three tables: patients, appointments, and doctors.
CREATE TABLE patients (
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
firstname VARCHAR(50),
lastname VARCHAR(50),
phone VARCHAR(20),
email VARCHAR(100)
);
CREATE TABLE appointments (
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
patient_id INT,
doctor_id INT,
appointment_date DATE,
appointment_time TIME,
FOREIGN KEY (patient_id) REFERENCES patients(id),
FOREIGN KEY (doctor_id) REFERENCES doctors(id)
);
CREATE TABLE doctors (
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
specialty VARCHAR(100),
qualification VARCHAR(100),
hospital VARCHAR(100)
);
• Let use JOIN for multiple tables and concatenating columns in a SQL query.
$query = $wpdb->prepare(
"SELECT db.*, dp.phone, dp.email, dd.specialty, dd.qualification, dd.hospital, CONCAT(dd.firstname, ' ', dd.lastname) AS doctor_name
FROM `appointments` AS db
JOIN `patients` AS dp ON db.patient_id = dp.id
JOIN `doctors` AS dd ON db.doctor_id = dd.id
WHERE db.id = %d",
$id
);