"Klaas Geldof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I have a question about MySQL queries. First I will explain the situation,
> then I will provide an example.
> 
> 
> Situation:
> 
> I have the tables 'offer', 'contact' and 'offer_contact'. Table 'offer'
> contains data about offers, table 'contact' about contacts. Table
> 'offer_contact' tells which contacts are associated with which offers (since
> offers can have multiple contacts associated with it and vice versa). Now I
> want to run a query so I get a row for each offer and in the result there's
> a field 'offer_contacts' which contains all the names of the contacts
> associated with the offer on that row separated by comma's.
> 
> 
> Example:
> 
> Table 'offer' (offer_id - offer_title):
> 1 - Test
> 2 - Also test
> 
> Table 'contact' (contact_id - contact_name):
> 1 - John
> 2 - Anna
> 
> Table 'offer_contact' (offer_id - contact_id):
> 1 - 1
> 1 - 2
> 2 - 1
> 
> Wanted result of query (offer_id - offer_name - offer_contacts):
> 1 - Test - John, Anna
> 2 - Also test - John
> 
> 
> Is this possible?
> 

GROUP_CONCAT() function may help. This function is available from version 4.1:
        http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/GROUP-BY-Functions.html


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