Question

I have this query

CONCAT_WS('<br>', GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT events.ID, events.EVENT_NAME, events.start_datetime SEPARATOR '<br><br>')) AS all_ids

Which produces something like this:

1Some Event!2013-01-03 21:00:00<br><br>

14Another Event2012-12-31 19:00:00<br><br>

25Friday Event2013-01-10 21:00:00<br><br>

But I would like to separate each column with a <BR> as well so the result would look like this:

1<BR>
Some Event!<BR>
2013-01-03 21:00:00<br><br>

14<BR>
Another Event<BR>
2012-12-31 19:00:00<BR><BR>

25<BR>
Friday Event<BR>
2013-01-10 21:00:00<br><br>

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should be able to use CONCAT() around each field:

CONCAT_WS('<br>', 
    GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT 
            concat(events.ID, '<br>'), 
            concat(events.EVENT_NAME, '<br>'), events.start_datetime SEPARATOR '<br><br>')) AS all_ids