Topic awaiting preservation: Mysql query with select from multiple tables

Okey, I have a small forum that I've written.
In this, I have one table for all the entries in the forums, and another table for all the users.
The entries all have their individual id-number and so do the users.

When I publish each entry I first query to get row with all the data (timestamp, content, author_id etc). Then I do another query with the author_id to get the users data (name, location etc) from the other table.
After all this I publish the data retrieved.
But...it's not that ball-breaking or slow but the code looks.....bad. I want to get all this in one query, and I've read some examples of subqueries and stuff. But is it possible to do one of them AND keep the data from the first query?
Anyone understand the slightest what I'm trying to achieve here?


Very nice forum btw.

/Justin

You don't need a sub query for this.
You'll need a mysql->join

Basic idea is to select from two tables

select users.*, records.* WHERE records.userId = users.userID AND records.recordId = 234

so long,

->Tyberius Prime

I don't think you need a subquery for this those are generally used in things like where statements.

Basically what you want to do is something like:

SELECT users.username, users.userinfo entries.title, entries.content FROM users, entries WHERE
users.author-id = '$aid' AND
entries.entry-id = '$eid'



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or what he said (let this sit for a sec before hitting post and he beats me to it)



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