Question

I have two tables, one table is called queuelist and the other is call info. In the queuelist table it just lists different IDs. I am trying to get the ‘clientID’ from that table and match it with the ‘ID’ in the other table that contains all of the info and display it back on the page. Here is how the tables look:

Table – queuelist

ID | clientID
-------------
1  | 589
2  | 254
3  | 486

Table – info

ID   | Name  | Phone
--------------------
256  | Bob   | 5551231234
486  | Jack  | 5551231234
589  | Jill  | 5551231234

Answer 1

This is what they call joining tables, you should use a query like this:

SELECT i.ID, i.Name, i.Phone FROM `queuelist` AS q
LEFT JOIN `info` AS i ON (
    q.clientID = i.ID
);

I’m using aliases for shorter notation in the above query (queuelist becomes q and info becomes i) and then set the join condition (the bit between the ON()) to be the clientID from the queuelist table should match the ID in the info table.

Also see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/join.html for more details.