Question

I am trying to merge some columns from one table into a view that contains all the data from another table. So far I have failed, here is what I have so far:

$create = "CREATE VIEW filter AS SELECT `".$db."`.`leads`.*, (`".$db."`.applicants.name AS lead_fname, `".$db."`.applicants.email AS lead_email, `".$db."`.applicants.appdate AS lead_added ) FROM `".$db."`.`leads`, `".$db."`.`applicants` WHERE ".$filterTerms." AND `lead_status` = '1' ORDER BY `lead_added`";

Any help would be appreciated

I think this is what i am trying to achieve:

View = table1 + table2

ID | email | name | appdate
1    data   data   data
2    data   data   data
3    data   data   data
4    data   data   data
5    data   data   data

Table 1

 ID | email | name | appdate
  1    data   data   data
  2    data   data   data

Table 2

 ID | s_email | s_name | s_appdate
 1    data      data   data
 2    data      data   data
 3    data      data   data

Answer 1

Based on the updated info, you want a UNION:

select email, name, appdate from table1
UNION
select s_email as email, s_name as name, s_appdate as appdate from table2