how do I display values from another mysql table?

[Darkwoods]

Hey I'm trying to display the names of the categories  but the values are numbers connected to another table with the title of the category

and the other problem is that sometimes it is multi categories selected and this will make a value like 1,2 so how can I solve this please?

 

here is my messed up code and there seems to be something wrong with it..

 

 <?PHP $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM properties, categories ",$connect);
	while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
		{
				$pr_category = $row["pr_category"];
		?>
            
            <h2><a href="blog-post.html"><?php echo $row['pr_title']; ?></a></h2>
            
<?PHP $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM categories WHERE id='$pr_category' ",$connect);
        while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) 
	{
	$cat_title = $row["title"]; ?>

            <p class="date">12 July 2011 in <a href="#"><?php echo $cat_title; } ?></a></p>
            <img class="img-large-bg" src="../uploads/images/<?php echo $row['f_img']; } ?>

[teynon]

SELECT * FROM properties INNER JOIN categories WHERE categories.id = properties.id AND categories.id IN ($value)

 

I think, might need some work. I'm in pain and medicated.

[jcbones]

Try running:

SELECT a.*, b.title FROM properties AS a JOIN categories AS b ON a.pr_category = b.id

 

I would suggest running that query inside your database management software (phpMyAdmin), or the console, to make sure it returns the data you expect.  This will save you coding time.

[Darkwoods]

Try running:

SELECT a.*, b.title FROM properties AS a JOIN categories AS b ON a.pr_category = b.id

 

I would suggest running that query inside your database management software (phpMyAdmin), or the console, to make sure it returns the data you expect.  This will save you coding time.

 

Hey your code worked but my remaining problem is how do I display the name of multi categories for example in the mysql field I got 1,2 which are cat1 and cat2

 

so far I'm only seeing the name of one category

[jcbones]

What mysql field?  How can a property be in two different categories? Perhaps you need a table to tie multiple categories to the one property.

 

Has your database been normalized?  If not, I would suggest reviewing some short video's.  This will go along way in helping you to get data in an ordered, and dependable fashion.

  <-Watch all 9, they are short, shouldn't take you to long.