i dont understand this part: "What's the smartest way to do the query ? I have 5 different tables I need to query. I guess I can get the data I want by selecting all from the 5 tables then parsing" Send your tables structure. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mignon Hunter" <mignon.hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 3:07 PM Subject: Re: Stumped with proper query & display Can someone please help me or direct me to some scripts that might get me unstuck, as I've not done this kind of query before. To simplify: Table 1 id 1 Name John Doe company IBM Table 2 id 1 choice choice #1 id 1 choice choice #2 So I have 2 records in table 2 that I need to tie in with id # 1 in table 1. What's the smartest way to do the query ? I have 5 different tables I need to query. I guess I can get the data I want by selecting all from the 5 tables then parsing through like: while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) { foreach Table1.id { if Table1.id == Table2.id{ echo <tr> }}} I could probably manage if I do 5 different queries with 5 different results sets, but that is obviously inelegant and would create more overhead I need to display as: John Doe IBM Choice #1, Choice #2 Am I even close ? Need some help with the logic... Thx for any guidance mignon -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php