Question

I am new to PHP and trying to learn some so sorry if this seems like too easy a question! anyway lets say I have 2 tables –

• ID & author
• ID, joke and AID (supposed to be Author ID)

I want to display each author and each joke they have written all on the same page

Author

• joke
• joke
• joke

Author

• joke
• joke
• joke

How would I go about doing this? I just can’t figure it out and I don’t know how to google it because I don’t know how to word it. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be super. Thanks!

Answer 1

1. You query all the jokes with their respective author

    SELECT j.joke, a.author, a.id auth_id
      FROM Jokes j
INNER JOIN Authors a
        ON j.AID = a.ID
  ORDER BY a.ID

2. Iterate over the results and output it

$last_author_id = -1;
while($row /* your weapon of choice */){
    if($row['auth_id'] != $last_author_id){
        $last_author_id = $row['auth_id'];
        echo $row['author'];
    }
    echo $row['joke'];
}