Question

I have 3 tables:

tbl_question (id,question)
tbl_answer (id,answer)
question_has_answer (id,question_id,answer_id)

It looks like many-to-many association, but in fact it is only used like 1-to-many (one question has multiple answers, but each answer belongs to only question). So I need to get fields (except id) from first and second table like this:

Question1
      answer1
      answer2
      answer3
Question2
      answer5
      answer4

and so on.

Answer 1

Would be:

SELECT question, answer
    FROM tbl_question q 
    INNER JOIN question_has_answer qha
    ON q.id = qha.question_id
    INNER JOIN tbl_answer a
    ON qha.answer_id = a.id
ORDER BY question,answer

I would also recommand not using an ID for table question_has_answer, if you don’t plan to use that ID.

And further more: if 1 answer is associated with only 1 question, than you shouldn’t use question_has_answer and modify tbl_answer to add a questionID column.