Re: PHP/MySQL learning project

Excellent! That's exactly what I needed to know! Thanks a million! "Justin Patrin" <papercrane@reversefold.com> wrote in message news:20040610220436.86094.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > News.Php.Net wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > > > In trying to learn PHP and MySQL, I'm trying to create a web-based database > > application that will keep track of my movies. I have five tables (shown in > > the graphic). I'm trying to be able to display the results of the tables > > with one movie title, all of the actors associated with it, and all of the > > genre's associated with it. > > > > Of course I can do the query: > > Select * > > From MovieMain, MovieActor, MovieGenre, Genre, Actors > > Where MovieMain.MovieID=MovieGenre.MovieID > > And MovieMain.MovieID=MovieActor.MovieID > > And MovieActor.ActorID=Actors.ActorID > > And MovieGenre.GenreID=Genre.GenreID > > > > But that displays the movie title for every genre and actor there is. Is > > there another way to perform the query that will display the title once, and > > all of the associated genres and all of the associated actors for that > > movie? Or should I try to code it using PHP to find the movie title first? > > > > Thanks in advance, everyone! > > > > > > > > There's no way to do that in SQL alone. You should do it in PHP. :-) > > -- > paperCrane <Justin Patrin>