I hate when somebody put in Subject line something like I just did but after 15 minutes to try to be specific just with one short sentence - I gave up. So, you can hate me - I understand (though, help with my problem too) :-)
I have let say 3 tables people, organization, addresses. and they are linked to each other with column person_id. to select person by specified person_id it's not big deal, really simple. though, I wonder how can I select records from these three tables but somehow marked which table it belongs? e.g. select p.first_name, p.last_name, p.status, p.date_registered, o.org_id, o.org_name, o.org_department, a.addres1, a.address2, a.city, a.state, a.zip from people p, organization o, addresses a where p.person_id=123 and o.person_id=p.person_id and a.person_id=p.person_id I need somehow, together with result data, info which table data belogs? e.g. not exactly this way but something like this: $data = array( 'people' => array('lamp', 'lists', 1, '2008-12-12'), 'organization' => array(56, 'Lamp List', 'web'), 'addresses' => array('123 Main St.', 'Toon Town', 'NY', '12345') } thanks for any help. -afan