I have two tables complaints and complaints_reply in my MySQl database. Users can add complaints which are stored in complaints the complaints reply are stored in complaints_reply table. I am trying to JOIN both these table contents on a specific condition. Before I mention what I am trying to get and the problem I faced, I will explain the structure of these two tables first.

NB: The person who adds complaints is complaint owner & person who adds a complaint reply is complaint replier. Complaint owner can also add replies. So he can either be the complaint owner or the complaint replier. The two tables have a one-to-many relationship. A complaint can have more than one complaint reply. member_id in complaint table represents complaint owner & mem_id in complaints_reply represent complaint replier

DESIRED OUTPUT: Join the two tables and fetch values and show the complaint and complaint’s reply as a single result set. But the condition is kinda tricky. The last added complaint reply from the complaints_reply table should be fetched for the complaint in complaints table in such a way that the complaint owner should not be the complaint replier. I use posted_date & posted_time from complaints_reply table to fetch the last added complaint reply for a complaint & that complaint replier has to be shown in the result set.

So, from the sample data the tables contain now, the output that I should get is:

+------+---------+----------+-------------+-------------------+
| id   | title   |member_id |last_replier |last_posted_dt     |
+------+---------+----------+-------------+-------------------+
|    1 | x       | 1000     |2002         | 2015-05-2610:11:17|
|    2 | y       | 1001     |1000         | 2015-05-2710:06:16|
+------+---------+----------+-------------+-------------------+

But what I got is:

+------+---------+----------+-------------+-------------------+
| id   | title   |member_id |last_replier |last_posted_dt     |
+------+---------+----------+-------------+-------------------+
|    1 | x       | 1000     |1001         | 2015-05-2610:11:17|
|    2 | y       | 1001     |2000         | 2015-05-2710:06:16|
+------+---------+----------+-------------+-------------------+

The date is correct, but the returned complaint replier last_replier is wrong.

This is my query.

SELECT com.id,
       com.title,
       com.member_id,
       last_comp_reply.last_replier,
       last_comp_reply.last_posted_dt
FROM complaints com
LEFT JOIN
  (SELECT c.id AS complaint_id,
          c.member_id AS parent_mem_id,
          cr.mem_id AS last_replier,
          max(cr.posted_dt) AS last_posted_dt
   FROM
     (SELECT cr.complaint_id,cr.mem_id,c.id,c.member_id,(CONCAT(cr.posted_date,cr.posted_time)) AS posted_dt
      FROM complaints_reply cr,
           complaints c
      WHERE cr.complaint_id=c.id
        AND cr.mem_id!=c.member_id
      GROUP BY cr.complaint_id,
               cr.mem_id,
               posted_dt)cr,
        complaints c
   WHERE cr.complaint_id=c.id
   GROUP BY cr.complaint_id,
            c.id,
            c.member_id) AS last_comp_reply ON com.id=last_comp_reply.complaint_id

Table structure for table complaints

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `complaints` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `title` varchar(500) NOT NULL,
  `member_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `posted_date` date NOT NULL,
  `posted_time` time NOT NULL 
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ;

Indexes for table complaints

ALTER TABLE `complaints`
 ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);

AUTO_INCREMENT for table complaints

ALTER TABLE `complaints`
MODIFY `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,AUTO_INCREMENT=3;

Dumping data for table complaints

INSERT INTO `complaints` (`id`, `title`, `member_id`, `posted_date`, `posted_time`) VALUES
(1, 'x', 1000, '2015-05-05', '02:06:15'),
(2, 'y', 1001, '2015-05-14', '02:08:10');

Table structure for table complaints_reply

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `complaints_reply` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `complaint_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `comments` text NOT NULL,
  `mem_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `posted_date` date NOT NULL,
  `posted_time` time NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=10 ;

Indexes for table complaints_reply

ALTER TABLE `complaints_reply`
 ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);

AUTO_INCREMENT for table complaints_reply

ALTER TABLE `complaints_reply`
MODIFY `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,AUTO_INCREMENT=10;

Dumping data for table complaints_reply

INSERT INTO `complaints_reply` (`id`, `complaint_id`, `comments`, `mem_id`, `posted_date`, `posted_time`) VALUES
(1, 1, 'reply1', 2000, '2015-05-08', '02:07:08'),
(2, 1, 'reply2', 2001, '2015-05-06', '06:05:08'),
(3, 1, 'reply3', 1000, '2015-05-14', '02:12:13'),
(4, 2, 'hola', 1000, '2015-05-27', '10:06:16'),
(5, 2, 'hello', 2000, '2015-05-04', '03:09:09'),
(6, 2, 'gracias', 1001, '2015-05-31', '06:12:18'),
(7, 1, 'reply4', 1001, '2015-01-04', '04:08:12'),
(8, 2, 'puta', 1001, '2015-06-13', '06:12:18'),
(9, 1, 'reply5', 1000, '2015-06-01', '04:08:12'),
(10, 1, 'reply next', 2002, '2015-05-26', '10:11:17');
P.S.

To give an idea about what my query is all about, I'll explain the sub query that is used to combine the tables & give result based on the condition: complaint owner should not be the complaint replier is:

SELECT cr.complaint_id,
       cr.mem_id,
       c.id,
       c.member_id,
       (CONCAT(cr.posted_date,cr.posted_time)) AS posted_dt
FROM complaints_reply cr,
     complaints c
WHERE cr.complaint_id=c.id
  AND cr.mem_id!=c.member_id
GROUP BY cr.complaint_id,
         cr.mem_id,
         posted_dt

And the result for this is:

+--------------+---------+----------+-------------+-------------------+
| complaint_id | mem_id  | id       |member_id    |     posted_dt     |
+--------------+---------+-------   +-------------+-------------------+
|    1         | 1001    | 1        |1000         | 2015-01-0404:08:12|
|    1         | 2000    | 1        |1000         | 2015-05-0802:07:08|
|    1         | 2001    | 1        |1000         | 2015-05-0606:05:08|
|    1         | 2002    | 1        |1000         | 2015-05-2610:11:17|
|    2         | 1000    | 2        |1001         | 2015-05-2710:06:16|
|    2         | 2000    | 2        |1001         | 2015-05-0403:09:09|
+--------------+---------+----------+-------------+-------------------+

member_id here represents complaint owner and mem_id represents complaint replier

The inner query gives the result based on the condition, then everything after this goes haywire. I don't know where I made mistake. The complaint replies added by complaint owner is not fetched in this table. So far so good. Is there any alternative way to get the result from here?