Select on Group

[Karl DeSaulniers <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,
Hoping someone can help me with this query.

I want to select some custom fields from my database that are part of a group of custom fields.
There are several of these groups. I want to (in one sql statement) grab these fields, all of them
and have them grouped in the results like so.


$custom_fields = array(
	'Group1' => array(
		'field_ID' => '1', 
		'field_name' => 'myAddressField',
		'filed_slug' => 'my-address-field'
	),
	'Group2' => array(
		'field_ID' => '2', 
		'field_name' => 'myCityField',
		'filed_slug' => 'my-city-field'
	),
	'Group3' => array(
		'field_ID' => '3', 
		'field_name' => 'myStateField',
		'filed_slug' => 'my-state-field'
	)
)

Here is the clincher... not all the info is in the same table.
This is what I am doing currently and it works, however I would like to eliminate calling the database in a foreach loop as well as multiple times to get my results.

[code]

$FieldGroups = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT DISTINCT Field_Group FROM ".table_name1."");

foreach($FieldGroups as $i=>$FieldGroup) {
	$field_group = stripslashes_deep($FieldGroup->Field_Group);

	$SQL = "SELECT ft.*, mt.* 
			FROM ". table_name1." ft 
			LEFT JOIN ". table_name2." mt 
			ON mt.Field_ID = ft.Field_ID 
			WHERE ft.Field_Group='%s' AND mt.Page_ID=%d AND ft.Field_Display='%s' 
			ORDER BY ft.Field_ID ASC";				
	$Fields = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare($SQL, $field_group, $Page_ID, $display));
}

[end code]

How can I combine these into one query that fills the result array the way described above?
I thought of a SELECT inside a SELECT, but my php foo is a little under trained at the moment.
Not sure how to do such and achieve the results I am after. Any help would be appreciated. 

TIA

Best,

Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com