On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 21:06, Steve Staples <sstap...@mnsi.net> wrote: > I mentioned that implode earlier, but there is also the underlying > question (which I also asked earlier)... how is he getting the 50 id's > to populate? > > here are 2 other ways of skinning the cat: > > using an inner join: > select table.* from table inner join othertable on (table.userid = > othertable.userid) where (use the way your getting the 50 id's here); > > OR by using a subselect, > select * from table where userid IN (select group_concat(userid, > separator ', ') FROM othertable where (using logic here)); > > guess it all depends on how you want to do it... but that would make it > 1 db query >
I personally would stick with the inner join as I know that syntax, but thanks for introducing me to the subselect. I have never seen that. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
