Question

I have a database with 2 tables I wish to pull data from both and display it in an html table. When I execute the below select statement I seem to get everything but the auto_increment column “id”

>mysql connection strings here.

$query = "SELECT Hotels.*,surfcup_Rates.*
          FROM Hotels 
               LEFT JOIN surfcup_Rates
               ON Hotels.id=surfcup_Rates.hotelID";

Then I use load the query into $result.
Later I load it into mysql_fetch_array and loop it into an html table.

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo "</td><td>";
    echo '<a href="DeleteHotelRecord.php?id="['.$row['id'].']">Delete</a>';
    echo "</td><td>";
    echo $row['id'];
    echo "</td><td>";
    echo $row['preferred'];
>and so on...........

Everything works: the join, the select statement and data loads into the table
perfectly. All except the id column from the first table. I wish to use the id to allow the user to delete a record. The user will be adding data to the tables from a password protected “back-end” for data entry.

Is there something wrong with my select statement? Or am I missing something. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You,
Dave.

Answer 1

Does the surfcup_Rates table also have a field called id? If so, mySQL won’t know whatid to use, hotel or surfcup_Rates.

In this case you have a couple of options,

1. changing the table structure, but do so at your own risk as other things could break
2. use an alias (best method)

DISCLAIMER

I have never used the following method in PHP myself, I have seen it in SAP and Zimbra, as this isn’t a discussion forum on these aspects, instead of a debate I thought I would put a disclaimer that it may not work but as mentioned above and in my comment below I have seen it work

1. call hotels.id

I hope this helps