Question

$query = mysql_query(‘SELECT * FROM news WHERE id = ‘{$_GET[‘id’]}”); $news = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);

$sql84 = mysql_query(‘SELECT username FROM users WHERE id = ”.$news[‘user_id’].”’) or exit(mysql_error()); $author = mysql_fetch_array($sql84);

is there i better way of doing this? a join maybe? how that look

Answer 1

It seems like you want something like this:

(Edited to add error checking)

$q = 'select username from news, users where news.user_id=users.id and news.id='.$_GET['id'].');'; $query = mysql_query($q) or die(mysql_error()); 

Ben