Question

I am having following query to fetch message and images from two different table.
Here One message can have multiple images

for that i have written following query which is working properly and showing following result

select msg.messageid, msg.message, msg.sentby, msg.adddate, 
p_i.image_id ,p_i.small_pic_path 
from user_messages as msg
LEFT JOIN post_images as p_i
on msg.messageid=p_i.messageid
where msg.messageid='zpx1btrpvpa1360154523078'
order by msg.adddate desc

Output is

 messageid  message  sentby  adddate  image_id  small_pic_path
   1         abc      aa      12/2/12   6          /sdf/sdf
   1         abc      aa      12/2/12   7          /asdf/df
   1         abc      aa      12/2/12   8          /cxd/sxc
   1         abc      aa      12/2/12   9          /zz/szz

Here messageid message sentby adddate is repeating and while displaying in jsp page
showing total 4 different message.

But I want to show 4 imageid and small_pic_path(based on message id) with a relevent message detail

I want to display as

1) Message
sentBy
all small_pic_path of messag id of this message

1) Message
sentBy
all small_pic_path of messag id of this message

2) Message
sentBy
all small_pic_path of messag id of this message

3) Message
sentBy
all small_pic_path of messag id of this message

Answer 1

Without really understanding your requirements, you write:

But I want to show 4 imageid and small_pic_path with a single message
detail

How do you want to show those records?

Assuming you mean on the same line, then look into using GROUP_CONCAT:

SELECT msg.messageid, msg.message, msg.sentby, msg.adddate, 
  group_concat(p_i.image_id separator ';') imageids,
  group_concat(p_i.small_pic_path separator ';') picpaths
FROM ...

Here’s a SQL Fiddle to demonstrate the results.

If you are wanting to show the results differently, chances are you should handle that via the UI.

Best of luck.