Question

table 1 = events -> holds a list of events

table 2 = response -> holds a list of users responses has a foreign key of eid which corresponds with events table

I need to join the tables together so it can return an array similar to this on php.

array(
  0 => array(
      'title' =>'',                      //title of events table
      'contents' =>'this is a demo',     //contents of events table
      'users' => array(                  //users comes from response table
           0 = array(
             'firstname'=>'John',
           ),
           1 = array(
             'firstname'=>'James',
           )
      )
  )
);

can this be done? using mysql only? coz i know you can do it on php.

Answer 1

You can gather all the necessary data in MySQL with a single JOIN query.

However, PHP will not return an array like your example by default. You would have to loop over the query result set and create such an array yourself.