mysql group rows in joined query - mysql

Question

Im stumbling upon a problem where i need to retrieve data from the following tables
events
+-------+---------+---------+
| e_id | e_title | e_link |
+-------+---------+---------+
| 1 | Event 1 | event_1 |
| 2 | Event 2 | event_2 |
| 3 | Event 3 | event_3 |
| 4 | Event 4 | event_4 |
| 5 | Event 5 | event_5 |
+-------+---------+---------+
reservations
+-------+---------+---------+
| r_id | r_e_id | r_u_id |
+-------+---------+---------+
| 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 5 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 |
+-------+---------+---------+
users
+-------+---------+----------+
| u_id | u_name | u_gender |
+-------+---------+----------+
| 1 | One | Male |
| 2 | Two | Male |
| 3 | Three | Female |
| 4 | Four | Male |
| 5 | Five | Female |
+-------+---------+----------+
I want to display an event page with the users that are subscribed to that event, like follows:
Event 2
Users:
- One
- Three
- Four
I have the following query with the problem that this one only displays the first user (so in this case Four), which makes sense because the mysql_fetch_assoc() is not in a while() loop.
$result = mysql_query("
SELECT events.e_title, reservations.*, users.u_name
FROM events
JOIN reservations
ON events.e_id = reservations.r_e_id
JOIN users
ON reservations.r_u_id = users.u_id
WHERE events.e_link = '".mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['link'])."'
");
$show = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
What should i change in my query to make it work the way i want?
EDIT:
The solution from Teez works perfect, but wat if i want to attach more info, say for a link? My desired output is something like this:
Event 2
Users:
- User 1 Male
- User 3 Female
- User 4 Male
How am i going to achieve that? And eventually i even want to split the users by gender. So one list for females and one for males
SECOND EDIT:
I'm stunned with the result so far, but to complete it i want to sort the users by gender, like so:
Event 2
Users male:
- User 1 Male
- User 4 Male
Users female:
- User 3 Female
but how?

Answer 1

Best way will be first make a 2D array containing all events with respective users
Like below:
while( $show = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$events[$show['e_id']][]=$show['u_name'];
$uid[$show['e_id']][]=$show['u_id'];
}
Then loop arround above array for displaying :
foreach($events ad $key=>$users)
{
echo "Event ".$key."<br>";
echo "Users : <br>";
foreach($users as $ukey=>$name)
{
echo " -<a href='domain.com/user/".$uid[$key][$ukey]."'>".$name."</a>;
}
}

Answer 2

So with each call of mysql_fetch_assoc you want to have the event details and a list of usernames? In MySQL you can use GROUP_CONCAT for this purpose, although it is quite limited and error-prone. You should rather put mysql_fetch_assoc() in a loop to build an array of users. Anyway, here is the GROUP_CONCAT solution:
$result = mysql_query("
SELECT events.e_title, GROUP_CONCAT(users.u_name) e_reservation_users
FROM events
JOIN reservations ON events.e_id = reservations.r_e_id
JOIN users ON reservations.r_u_id = users.u_id
WHERE events.e_link = '".mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['link'])."'
GROUP BY 1
");
$show = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$show will then be
array('e_title' => '...', 'e_reservation_users' => '...,...,...').