Question

I have this sql statement joining 3 tables:

SELECT * FROM `int_news` 
                       LEFT JOIN tl_member ON int_news.member_id = tl_member.id
                       LEFT JOIN tl_news ON int_news.news_id = tl_news.id

The 3 Tables are like this:

Table 1 (int_news)
ID, member_id, news_id

Table 2 (tl_member)
id, firstname, lastname

Table 3 (tl_news)
id, headline

So far so good, but it seems i have a big blackhole in my head making me unable to solve how to output the result like this

For each “headline” i want ALL lastnames e.g.

headline 1       Jonny
                 Walker
                 Jim

headline 2       Knopf
                 Jon
                 Doe

Answer 1

It sounds your looking something like a pivot so if you group your query by headline, it will display each lastname as a column.

I found this good tutorial on pivots for mysql that might help you http://www.artfulsoftware.com/infotree/queries.php#78

headline 1       Jonny    Walker    Jim

headline 2       Knopf    Jon       Doe

Here is a loop that would do that *Forgive my php it’s been a while.

$curHeadline = "";

while ( $db_field = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) ) {

    if($curHeadline != $db_field['headline'])
    {
        $curHeadline = $db_field['headline'];
        print $curHeadline . $db_field['ID']
    }

    print $db_field['lastName'] . "<BR>";
}