Question

I have 2 tables. One called users & the other called tv shows. The users table has: users_id, displayname, username and password, I have a foreign key called users_id and in the tv shows table I have tv_id, users_id FK, tvshow, seasons. I want to be able to display the displayname from the users table as to who created it rather than displaying the number id he is assigned.

Answer 1

Use the following SQL query to fetch information about the user:

SELECT          users.username,
                tv_shows.*
    FROM        tv_shows
    LEFT JOIN   users
    ON          users.users_id = tv_shows.user_id

And then display the information about the user using the following PHP snippet:

 echo '<td>'.
      '<a href="users.php?username='.
      $row['username'].
      '">'.
      $row['username'].
      '</a></td>';