MySQL pulling information from multiple table issue - php

Question

I'm trying to access information from 2 different tables and its retrieving the information but it all so pulling in user information multiple times pending how many fruits listed in table tbl_fruits.
like to be able to display user information once and pull what ever number of fruits associated with the user at the same time.
2 tables:
tbl_users:
userid
firstname
lastname
tbl_fruits:
userid
fruit
in the example code userID 4 has 3 fruits associated with him in tbl_fruit. As you can see from the results below the user information is listed multiple times. How can I rewrite the code so that the user information is pulled once and the fruits show up 3 times.
$clientID = "4";
try
{ $stmt = $dbcon1 ->query("SELECT
tbl_fruits.fruit,
tbl_users.userid,
tbl_users.firstname,
tbl_users.lastname
FROM tbl_users
LEFT JOIN tbl_fruits
ON tbl_fruits.userid = tbl_users.userid
WHERE tbl_users.userid = '$clientID' ");
$testArray = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
}
catch(PDOException $e)
{ echo $e->getMessage(); }
echo '<pre>';
print_r($testArray);
echo '</pre>';
results
array
(
[0] => Array
(
[fruit] => Apple
[userid] => 4
[firstname] => John
[lastname] => Smith
)
[1] => Array
(
[fruit] => Orange
[userid] => 4
[firstname] => John
[lastname] => Smith
)
[2] => Array
(
[fruit] => Banana
[userid] => 4
[firstname] => John
[lastname] => Smith
)
)

Answer 1

Change your query as below:
{ $stmt = $dbcon1 ->query("SELECT
count(tbl_fruits.userid)
tbl_users.userid,
tbl_users.firstname,
tbl_users.lastname
FROM tbl_users
LEFT JOIN tbl_fruits
ON tbl_fruits.userid = tbl_users.userid
WHERE tbl_users.userid = '$clientID'
GROUP BY tbl_users.userid ");
The count(tbl_fruits.userid) part counts the number of unique rows with that row's value of tbl_fruits.userid, while the GROUP BY tbl_users.userid part eliminates the duplicates.
Be sure to put an index on tbl_users.userid and tbl_fruits.userid for best performance.