Custom query results generate code - html

Question

Simple question. I have the following custom query. How do I make it generate a html list of the array via "echo?"
$q_result = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT DISTINCT {$wpdb->terms}.name FROM {$wpdb->terms}
INNER JOIN {$wpdb->term_taxonomy} ON {$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.term_id = {$wpdb->terms}.term_id
INNER JOIN {$wpdb->term_relationships} ON {$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.term_taxonomy_id = {$wpdb->term_relationships}.term_taxonomy_id
WHERE {$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.taxonomy = 'series' AND {$wpdb->term_relationships}.object_id IN (
SELECT object_id FROM {$wpdb->term_relationships}
INNER JOIN {$wpdb->term_taxonomy} ON {$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.term_taxonomy_id = {$wpdb->term_relationships}.term_taxonomy_id
WHERE {$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.taxonomy = 'media_type' AND {$wpdb->term_taxonomy}.term_id = '16'
ORDER BY {$wpdb->terms}.term_order DESC
) ORDER BY {$wpdb->terms}.term_order ASC");

Answer 1

You can just iterate through the array with a foreach -
foreach( $q_result as $result ){
echo "<a href='/series/".$result."/>".$result."</a>";
}
If you want it to display HTML as well, you will have to echo the proper HTML tags. The above will sort of work for links to the term - the format is TAXONOMY/TERM_SLUG however you are only returning the name, you need to get the name and the slug using get_results() to do it properly.
Reformatted example using table aliases, returning the term and slug:
$sql = <<<SQL
SELECT DISTINCT t.name, t.slug
FROM {$wpdb->terms} t
INNER JOIN {$wpdb->term_taxonomy} tt
ON tt.term_id = t.term_id and tt.taxonomy = 'series'
INNER JOIN {$wpdb->term_relationships} tr
ON tt.term_taxonomy_id = tr.term_taxonomy_id
WHERE tr.object_id IN (
SELECT object_id
FROM {$wpdb->term_relationships} tr2
INNER JOIN {$wpdb->term_taxonomy} tt2
ON tt2.term_taxonomy_id = tr2.term_taxonomy_id AND tt2.taxonomy = 'media_type' AND tt2.term_id = '16'
ORDER BY {$wpdb->terms}.term_order DESC
)
ORDER BY {$wpdb->terms}.term_order ASC
SQL;
$terms = $wpdb->get_results( $sql );
for ( $terms as $term ){
echo "<a href='/series/{$term->slug}/'>{$term->name}</a><br/>";
}