Question

I have a database but one part of it that has baffled me is how I can get it to relate a supplier ID to the name of the supplier.

So for example I want to add a product through a form but at the moment when I come to select supplier ID it will only show the ID number (5, for example), rather than the name of the supplier the ID relates to

Answer 1

I suspect what you need to do is join the supplier table with the product table. Assuming the product table has a supplier_id column, something like this:

(EDIT based on first comment)

SELECT p.description, s.supplierId, s.supplierName
FROM product p
INNER JOIN supplier s ON s.supplierId = p.supplierId
WHERE p.id = some_value;

If you post the table descriptions, like a SHOW CREATE TABLE table_name, this could be refined and made more useful for you.