Question

I have an array of employee ids:

34 , 35, 40, 67, 54 and so on.

What would be the simplest way to query my ’employees’ table and find all the names of the correlated employees?

That is a query that would return the ‘name’ for each of the ids in the array.

Answer 1

$id_str = implode(', ', $ids);
mysql_query("SELECT name FROM employees WHERE id IN ($id_str)");

If you want them all in one result row, use mysql’s GROUP CONCAT.