Question

What I am attempting to do is match the username stored in two tables, table1 and table2 and then pull the user_id of table 2.

Table1 has columns such as id, username, and other random info

Table2 has columns such as user_id, username, and other random info

What I am attempting to do in the end is select information from table1 to be displayed however so I can go to the correct id when i click the link I need the user_id out of table2

The following is pulling the user_id’s however I need all of the other information out of Table1 so I can echo it out in my page

select user_id
from login_users
where username IN ( select username  from cpanel)
ORDER BY username DESC

Answer 1

Do a join as below:

 SELECT b.user_id, a.*
 from cpanel a, 
    login_users b
 where b.username = a.username
 ORDER BY a.username DESC

OR

 SELECT b.user_id, a.*
 FROM cpanel a JOIN login_users b
   ON b.username = a.username
 ORDER BY a.username DESC

Here a.* returns you all the columns of cpanel table, while userid is retrieved from login_users table.