Question

I have these 2 queries and i would like to join them into one but i am unsure of how to go about it.

Query 1:

$query = "SELECT * FROM ".$db_tbl_comics." WHERE ".$db_fld_comics_publisher."='".$pub_id."'
AND ".$db_fld_comics_active."='1' GROUP BY ".$db_fld_comics_arc;

Query 2:

$q2 = mysql_query('SELECT '.$db_fld_arcs_title.' FROM '.$db_tbl_arcs.'
WHERE '.$db_fld_arcs_id.'="'.$result[$db_fld_comics_arc].'"');

Comics Table:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `comics` (
  `id` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `arc` int(255) NOT NULL,
  `title` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `issue` decimal(5,1) DEFAULT NULL,
  `price` decimal(10,2) NOT NULL,
  `plot` longtext NOT NULL,
  `publisher` int(255) NOT NULL,
  `isbn` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `published` date NOT NULL,
  `cover` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT './images/nopic.jpg',
  `added` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  `views` int(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `active` int(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `arc` (`arc`,`title`,`issue`,`publisher`)
);

Arcs Table:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `arcs` (
  `id` int(255) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `title` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `plot` longtext NOT NULL,
  `added` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `title` (`title`)
);

What I need to do is get the Arcs Title from the arcs table for the respective comic arc.

Answer 1

You need to use INNER JOIN for that since I presume that records are present on both tables.

SELECT  a.*, b.title
FROM    comics a INNER JOIN arcs b
            on a.id = b.id
WHERE   a.Title = 'VALUEHERE'

displays all details from comics table and the title of the arc