Question

I have the following table as an example.

id uid car 
1  3   BMW
2  3   AUDI
3  3   JEEP
4  5   MERC
5  6   BMW
6  6   FIAT

Now, I would like to get all cars but for only 2 users but don’t know how many cars they have. When they all would have had only one car, I could just do a LIMIT 3 but how can I do this to get all the cars, but only for 2 users?

Answer 1

EDIT

If the 2 users are unknown you can use MySQL GROUP_CONCAT

$query = mysql_query("SELECT uid, GROUP_CONCAT(car) as cars FROM tablename GROUP BY uid ORDER BY uid ASC LIMIT 0,2");
while ($get = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
  $userid = $get['uid'];
  $result = explode(",", $get['cars']);
  echo '<h2>User #' . $userid . ' owns the following cars:</h2>' . "\n";
  echo '<ul>' . "\n";
  foreach ($result as $car) {
    echo '  <li>' . $car . '</li>' . "\n";
  }
  echo '</ul>' . "\n";
}

Note: Don’t forget to change the tablename in the SELECT query