Hello,

I need to select information from two different databases and join them into one web page. I am unsure how to go about doing this. I am not a PHP programmer, any help would be appreciated.

Not absolutely sure...

If the 2 databases are located on the same server (same "username", "password" and "localhost")...

I think you should try something like this:

$query="SELECT
first_database_name . first_table_name . optional_column_name ,
second_database_name . second_table_name . optional_column_name

FROM
first_database_name . first_table_name . optional_column_name

INNER JOIN
second_database_name . second_table_name . optional_column_name

etc...

On the same server just do this:

SELECT dbname.tablename.columnname,db2name.table2name.column2name FROM 
dbname.tablename, db2name.table2name;

(I think you get the idea)

As far as I know you can't select data across multiple servers.

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