Question

I need my MySQL query return “value” and “label” field name.

I would like to have “value” as id of user and “label” as “name lastname” or “*name_first_letter lastname*” directly from the query.

Lets say I have a table like this:

• id name lastname
• 1 John Johhanson
• 2 Peter Petterson
• 3 Jeff Jefferson

I get the ID as “value” by a simple query: SELECT id as value. I would also like to get “J. Johhanson” or “P. Petterson” as “label“.

UPDATE

Sorry for bothering. I tried CONCAT, CONCAT_WS. Initially unsuccessfully, but now managed to get the results easily.
In my case this query worked as I needed:

SELECT CONCAT_WS(' ', name, lastname ) FROM users
WHERE name LIKE  "%Peter%"

Thank you.

Answer 1

SELECT id                                    AS value, 
       Concat(LEFT(name, 1), '. ', lastname) AS label 
FROM   table;