Mysql query for finding followers and following

Here are the two tables:

1.user
user_id  |  full_name   | username
1              A             A_1
2              B             B_2
3              C             C_3
4              D             D_4
5              E             E_5

2.user_follower
user_id  |  follower_id  |  follow_dtm
2              4            2018-10-09 10:10:10
2              3            2018-01-09 11:10:10
1              5            2018-11-09 07:10:10
4              2            2018-10-09 06:10:10
4              5            2018-10-09 00:10:10

Find follower of user: 2 Output should be:

user_id: 4  fullname: D username: D_4  f_total_flwr: 2 (num of flwr of id-4)  following: yes
user_id: 3  fullname: C username: C_3  f_total_flwr: 0 (num of flwr of id-3)  following: no

I need a mysql query to find all the followers of a particular user with detail information of the followers from user table and need to know the number of followers each follower has and i also need to if the the particular user also following the follower. Here’s what I have tried:

SELECT u.user_id 
     , u.full_name
     , u.username
     , COUNT(DISTINCT uf.follower_id) f_total_flwr
     , case when b.user_id is null then 'no' else 'yes' end following 
  FROM user_follower
  JOIN user u 
    ON user_follower.follower_id = u.user_id
  LEFT 
  JOIN user_follower uf 
    ON u.user_id = uf.user_id
  LEFT 
  JOIN user_follower b 
    ON b.user_id = user_follower.follower_id 
   and b.user_id = u.user_id 
 WHERE user_follower.user_id=2 
 GROUP 
    BY u.user_id 
 ORDER 
    BY uf.follow_dtm DESC 
 LIMIT 30

I know I’m getting close ;). The problem is, I’m getting following with a yes value even though the user is not following back.Here is another weird thing – not all but some of them showing yes which should be no .Thanks!

Answer

Try this:

select u2.*,b.fcount, case when uf3.user_id is null then 'no' else 'yes' end as connected from user u2 inner join
(
select u.user_id,count(distinct(uf2.follower_id)) fcount
from user u 
inner join user_follower uf1 on u.user_id=uf1.follower_id and uf1.user_id=1
left join user_follower uf2 on uf2.user_id=uf1.follower_id
group by u.user_id
) b on u2.user_id=b.user_id
left join user_follower uf3 on u2.user_id=uf3.user_id and uf3.follower_id=1

I tried it using the following data sets:

USER

1,a,abcd

2,b,bcde

3,c,cdef

user_follower

1,2,10

1,3,11

2,3,10

3,1,13

And got the expected result:

2,b,bcde,1,no

3,c,cdef,1,yes

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