Question

First of all i don’t know whether the title is relevant or not (please forgive me if it’s not relavant).

I have 2 tables userprofile and country.

userprofile table:-
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userid | email |............|**countryid**
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country table:-
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**countryid** | countryname
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I want to select data from the userpfofile table,
i.e $query="select * from userprofile …but the problem is that this data returns countryid but I actually want to return countryname.

I am new to MySQL, so please suggest the best way to achieve this.

Answer 1

You need to join these two tables together to get the data you want, like so:

SELECT * FROM userprofile u
    LEFT JOIN country c
    ON c.countryid = u.countryid

This will produce a result set similar to:

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| userid | email | .......... | countryid | countryname |
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