Question

I have a table called page and I query this, for instance,

SELECT *
FROM page

and I access the data each row in this table columns like this $item->title;

I want to know if I can select the row of this table and at the same time I can retrieve what name is this table I am selecting? So when I do this,

echo $item->table_name; then I get this – page

is it possible?

Answer 1

You could, of course, do something like this:

SELECT *, 'page' AS table_name FROM page;

Asking what table you obtained a row from doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense though. What would you expect the result to be if you had executed a join? What about a union of two queries that select different tables?