Question

I currently have a page that displays player information from one table named “tblplayers”. The query I am currently using is:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblPlayers WHERE lng_RecordID_PK = '".$playerid."' ");

I have a second table named “tblMatches” containing match results for the players. I want the recordset to include the rows from “tblMatches” WHERE “P1_ID” OR “P2_ID” is equal to the “lng_RecordID_PK” field from “tblPlayers”.

How can I revise my $result query so that it returns:

• one row from tblPlayers
• multiple rows from tblMatches

???

Thanks for helping me out.

Answer 1

That’s called a ‘join’:

SELECT tblPlayers.*, tblMatches.*
FROM tblPlayers
LEFT JOIN tblMatches ON Ing_RecordID_PK IN (P1_ID, P2_ID)