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PHP

Posted by Samuel Nhakiwe
Samuel Nhakiwe
112 Points

PHP question please help

select the username and the first and last names and alias them as username, first names and last name;

1 Answer

jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points
jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points

in php you may have two variables:

$firstName = 'Pete';
$lastName = 'Tong';

then to get the username you simply use concatenation:

$userName = $firstName . ' ' . $lastName;

but if this is php and MYSQL then you can create a concatenation of firstName and lastName an give it an alias of AS UserName:

-- The ' ' is a space 
SELECT CONCAT(firstname,' ', lastname) AS UserName FROM TableName;

Hope this helps.