Question

How do I join something like this together:

$query = ("SELECT * FROM profiles,follow
           WHERE follow.friend ='$user' 
               AND follow.user !='$user' 
               AND profiles.user1 =follow.user 
           ORDER BY id DESC limit 20");

or

("SELECT * FROM profiles WHERE user1='$user'");

I need the query to display two different things how do I do that.

Answer 1

Use UNION:

SELECT * 
FROM profiles, follow
WHERE follow.friend ='$user' 
  AND follow.user !='$user' 
  AND profiles.user1 =follow.user 
  ORDER BY id DESC limit 20
UNION
SELECT * 
FROM profiles 
WHERE user1='$user'