Question

I am having a problem writing a MySQL query to get data from 2 tables in the same database. I don’t know how to combine the 2 tables into 1 table basically so that I can use PHP to display the information. Right now I am using 2 queries and PHP to join them… I really need the persons name and the score they got.

tbl_scores
----------
user_id
points

tbl_users
---------
user_id
name

tbl_users has more fields but those are the only ones that matter I think? Please help or send what I need to look up to learn more.

Answer 1

The word you’re looking to use is JOIN… more information on MySQL JOINs can be found all over the internet but I found one here: http://mysqljoin.com/

The following code is untested but should work for your scenario…

SELECT
    u.name,
    s.points
FROM
    tbl_users AS u LEFT JOIN tbl_scores AS s ON u.user_id = s.user_id