New to SQL, PHP, have big problem....

I've got a database with 2 tables:

zipcodes
zipcode - has a zipcode
hxagent - holds an agent ID
sfagent - holds an agent ID
pwagent - holds an agent ID
distrib - holds an agent ID

agents
agentcode - - holds an agent ID

Customer enters in an zipcode
zipcode table is searched for a matching zipcode.

When a match is made, the agent codes are returned for that zip.

The agent table is then searched for the agent codes and agents info is displayed.

hxagent, sfagent and distrib may or maynot have different info, yet all matches need to be returned together.


This is what I got so far, but it doesn't quite cut it. I cant do a nested Select as VO's version of MYSQL doesn't support that feature yet. Any ideas?


PHP Code:
$query "select DISTINCT zipcodes.hxagent, zipcodes.sfagent, zipcodes.distributor from zipcodes, agents where zipcodes.zipcode ='$searchterm'";
  
$result mysql_query($query);

  
$num_results mysql_num_rows($result);

  echo 
"<p>Number of Agents found: ".$num_results."</p>";
  echo 
stripslashes($searchterm);

  for (
$i=0$i <$num_results$i++)
  {
     
$row mysql_fetch_array($result);
       
$query2 "select * from agents where zipcodes.hxagent ='stripslashes($row["hxagent"])'";
       
$result2 mysql_query($query2);
       echo 
"<p><strong>".($i+1).". HXAgent:<BR>";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["hxagent"]).", ";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["distributor"])."<BR> ";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["agentname"])."<BR>";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["repadd"])."<BR>";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["repcity"]).", ";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["repstate"])." ";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["repzip"]);
       echo 
"</strong>";
     if (
$row["zipcodes.hxagent"] != $row["zipcodes.sfagent"])
     { 
       echo 
"<p><strong>".($i+1).". SFAgent:<BR>";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["sfagent"]).", ";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["distributor"])."<BR> ";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["agentname"])."<BR>";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["repadd"])."<BR>";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["repcity"]).", ";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["repstate"])." ";
       echo 
stripslashes($row["repzip"]);
       echo 
"</strong>";
     }
     echo 
"</p>";
  }

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I'm in over my head at this point (the dummies book just don't cover this, ya know?)

Help greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

 

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