Question

Basically I need to do this query using Zend_Db_Select:

SELECT *, `matches`.`name` AS superName, `dimension`.`name` AS someName 
FROM `matches`
JOIN `dimension` ON [whatever condition]
-- etc, etc.

Doing joins and the rest is easy eventually going to something like:

$select = Globals::db()->select();
$select -> from("matches")
        -> join("dimension", "`matches`.`idDimension` = `dimension`.`idDimension`")
        -> join("accounts", "`accounts`.idAccount = `matches`.idOwner");        
     // -> etc, etc

return Globals::db()->fetchAll($select);

The problem is that the column name appears in more than 1 table so name by itself is ambiguous therefore in response is null. How do I fix that?

I’ve tried:

$select = Globals::db()->select();
$select -> from("matches", "*, `matches`.`name`")

and

$select = Globals::db()->select();
$select -> from("matches", "*", "`matches`.`name`")

but both return error (column * not found and syntax error).

Answer 1

Try

$select -> from("matches", array("*", "name as superName"))