Question

I am working with php, mysql and I want to do exactly what
this link says.

In the w3schools example it prints:

   NAME                  ORDER NO. 
Ola Hansen                22245 
Ola Hansen                47475
Ola Hansen                45854

But I need:

   NAME                  ORDER NO.
Ola Hansen          22245, 47475, 45854

It has to do with data manipulation on PHP or do I need to change something on the query….?

Thanks in advance,

Niki

Answer 1

Both ways are possible.

You can use group_concat() in mysql (along with GROUP BY of course). But keep in mind that default size of the data returned by this function is just 1024 bytes.

Or you can do it with data manipulation in PHP – sometimes it’s going to be more flexible