Question

I currently have a couple tables that I’m joining together so I can form all of the relevenat results into a news feed of recent activity. The only problem I’m having is figuring out which table the information is coming from.

$recentActivity = mysql_query("
SELECT * 
FROM members 
LEFT JOIN market 
ON members.id = market.user 
LEFT JOIN sales 
ON members.id = sales.uid 
WHERE members.id='$id'
");

I’m then running a while loop

<? while ($recent = mysql_fetch_assoc($recentActivity)) { ?>

If the result in the loop comes from the market table I would like to be able to echo “market” or something like that and do the same if it comes from the sales table.

Hope this makes sense.

Answer 1

You cannot. The only possible way is to explicitly specify aliases for all (necessary) market table fields. Like:

SELECT members.*,
       market.id AS market_id,
       market.foobar AS market_foobar

etc. The same with sales table