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Asked: 2026-06-15T14:50:57+00:00

I have a situation where I am using a UNION such as this: $query

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I have a situation where I am using a UNION such as this:

$query = "SELECT bigimage, heading, fullarticle, dateadded FROM news ";
$query .= "WHERE (state = '" . $USER->state . "' OR state = 'ALL') AND status = 1 AND newstype != 1 AND frontpage = 1 AND bigimage > '' ";
$query .= "UNION ";
$query .= "SELECT image, eventname, details, dateadded FROM events ";
$query .= "WHERE (state = '" . $USER->state . "' OR state = 'ALL') AND status = 1 AND frontpage = 1 AND image > '' ";
$query .= "ORDER BY dateadded DESC LIMIT 10";
$restresult = mysql_query($query);

Now, what I am wanting to find out is which table each result comes from, so I was wondering if I could add some kind of custom result to each result returned to give me some form of indication what table it came from.

Could I add an extra “dynamic” column somehow in the returned result?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try this:

    $query = "SELECT bigimage, heading, fullarticle, dateadded, 'news' as TableName FROM news ";
$query .= "WHERE (state = '" . $USER->state . "' OR state = 'ALL') AND status = 1 AND newstype != 1 AND frontpage = 1 AND bigimage > '' ";
$query .= "UNION ";
$query .= "SELECT image, eventname, details, dateadded, 'event' FROM events ";
$query .= "WHERE (state = '" . $USER->state . "' OR state = 'ALL') AND status = 1 AND frontpage = 1 AND image > '' ";
$query .= "ORDER BY dateadded DESC LIMIT 10";
$restresult = mysql_query($query);
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