join - Count with IF condition in MySQL query

Question

I have two tables, one is for news and the other one is for comments and I want to get the count of the comments whose status has been set as approved.

SELECT
    ccc_news . *, 
    count(if(ccc_news_comments.id = 'approved', ccc_news_comments.id, 0)) AS comments
FROM
    ccc_news
    LEFT JOIN
        ccc_news_comments
    ON ccc_news_comments.news_id = ccc_news.news_id
WHERE
    `ccc_news`.`category` = 'news_layer2'
    AND `ccc_news`.`status` = 'Active'
GROUP BY
    ccc_news.news_id
ORDER BY
    ccc_news.set_order ASC
LIMIT 20 

But the problem with this query is that the minimum value that is fetched for the comments column is 1 whether there is any comment existent corresponding to that news or not.

Any help would be highly appreciable.

Answer 1

Use sum() in place of count()

Try below:

SELECT
    ccc_news . * , 
    SUM(if(ccc_news_comments.id = 'approved', 1, 0)) AS comments
FROM
    ccc_news
    LEFT JOIN
        ccc_news_comments
    ON
        ccc_news_comments.news_id = ccc_news.news_id
WHERE
    `ccc_news`.`category` = 'news_layer2'
    AND `ccc_news`.`status` = 'Active'
GROUP BY
    ccc_news.news_id
ORDER BY
    ccc_news.set_order ASC
LIMIT 20