Question

For example:

I have the normal column name:

SELECT column FROM….

The way i retrieve it in PHP:

$var = $row["column"];

What i want to know is how to retrieve column records which are named with column and table:

SELECT table.column FROM…

Answer 1

It works the exact same way, it’s not going to be prefixed with a table.

so if you do a SELECT table.* FROM …, and one of the column names is tacos. you can still do $row['tacos'].

Now, if you’re doing multiple tables (joins) it can get ambiguous if they have the same names, such as “id”. So you can alias them… SELECT table.column as new_name FROM …