RE: [PHP] Multipe Tables, Single Query Problem

2001-06-19 Thread Christopher Ostmo
Simon Kimber pressed the little lettered thingies in this order... > > Christopher Wrote... > > You need to be able to tie at least one field from each table to > > one other > > field in another table, and then you can have a query like: > > > > SELECT videos.*, links.*, actors.* > > FROM video

RE: [PHP] Multipe Tables, Single Query Problem

2001-06-19 Thread Simon Kimber
Christopher Wrote... > You need to be able to tie at least one field from each table to > one other > field in another table, and then you can have a query like: > > SELECT videos.*, links.*, actors.* > FROM videos, links, actors > WHERE videos.VideoID = '$VideoID' AND > links.VideoID = videos.Vi

Re: [PHP] Multipe Tables, Single Query Problem

2001-06-19 Thread Hugh Bothwell
SELECT video.id, video.title, video.description, actor.name FROM ( video INNER JOIN link ON link.videoID = video.id ) JOIN actor ON actor.id = link.actorID WHERE video.title LIKE $searchstr What you'll get is one query returning a bunch of rows, one for each actor. Then concatenate the actors u

RE: [PHP] Multipe Tables, Single Query Problem

2001-06-19 Thread Ray Hilton
Something like: SELECT name, title, description from videos, actors, links where actors.ID = links.ID and videos.ID=videoID, and videos.ID = 20; ? But in just want one row? You could return all the names in one row (I think) using MySQL (I assume?) string functions... I have a funny feeling yo

Re: [PHP] Multipe Tables, Single Query Problem

2001-06-19 Thread Christopher Ostmo
Simon Kimber pressed the little lettered thingies in this order... > Hi all, > > I have three tables in my (mysql) database: > > videos - ID, title, description, etc.. > links - ID, videoID, actorID > actors - ID, name, dateofbirth, gender, etc... > You need to be able to tie at least one fie

Re: [PHP] Multipe Tables, Single Query Problem

2001-06-19 Thread Chris Aitken
At 01:57 PM 6/06/2001, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I have three tables in my (mysql) database: > >videos - ID, title, description, etc.. >links - ID, videoID, actorID >actors - ID, name, dateofbirth, gender, etc... > >what i need to do is return a particular video and all it's staring actors >with just