Question

I have a mysql join query for retrieving the users a user subscribed to.

SELECT * FROM (subscriptions) JOIN users ON users.userid = subscriptions.following WHERE userid = $userid ORDER BY subscribed desc

In order to ensure that the query is correct, is there a php function that I can use to see what I produced? Maybe get a table structure of the query like below. Or is there another way to get a visual table design of my join?

+----+-------------+-------------------+
| ID | some column | some column       |
+----+-------------+-------------------+
| 1  | 102         | 213               |
| 2  | 64          | 23                |
| 3  | 4           | 344               |
+----+-------------+-------------------+

EDIT: It seems that I can test the query in phpmyadmin which produces a table of my join query. This is a great way to get a visual of your query!

Answer 1

Not necessarily a single function, but you can create yourself one using:

• mysql_fetchassoc() to get the resultset as key(col name)/value(col value) pairs
• array_keys() to get all the column names from resultset and create your table header