Re: [PHP] MySQL Alias and PHP

[Charles Kline]

Thanks for all the suggestions, I have tried all and more and still 
can't get this quite right. If there is a better forum for these 
question, please point me to it and I will take this somewhat off topic 
thread elsewhere.

My table structure is like so:

tbl_1

id        area_1        area_2
1          2                   3
2          1                   2
3          5                   0
tbl_2

id         area_name
1          funding
2          research
3          new
4          ongoing
5          other
So, I need to display all the records in tbl_1 and show the values for 
the fields area_1 and area_2 as their area_name field from tbl_2. I 
must display each record from tbl_1 only once. I know I am close, but I 
just can't get this to work. The closest I have gotten is this:

SELECT DISTINCT  a.area_name area_a, b.area_name area_b FROM tbl_1 x, 
tbl_2 a, tbl_2 b
WHERE x.area_1 = a.id
OR x.area_2 = b.id GROUP BY x.id

But this ALWAYS returns the area_name (funding) in the value of area_b 
(have no idea why)

Thanks for any help. It is appreciated.

- Charles

On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 01:42 PM, Jim Lucas wrote:

Then the information in the DB is the same.

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rich Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] MySQL Alias and PHP
Thanks for the help. Almost there. Here is what I have:

SELECT x.id, x.headline, x.description, a.area area_a, b.area area_b
FROM tbl_funding x, tbl_dra a, tbl_dra b
GROUP  BY x.id LIMIT 0 , 30
The problem is that $array[area_a] and $array[area_b] display the same
info.




On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 11:09 AM, Rich Gray wrote:

Hi all,

I have this query:

SELECT a.area_name, b.area_name FROM tbl_1 x, tbl_2 a, tbl_2 b
WHERE x.area_1 = a.id
AND x.area_2 = b.id
I am using PEAR DB to get my results as an ASSOC ARRAY. How do I echo
the values for a.id and b.id?
Thnks
Charles
I presume you mean area_name...

Try this -> SELECT a.area_name as area_a, b.area_name as area_b FROM
tbl_1
x, tbl_2 a, tbl_2 b
Then you can refer to the columns as $array['area_a'] and
$array['area_b']
HTH
Rich


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