How to JOIN tables in many-to-many relationship

Question

I have a table named category which has fields and fields has field options

category->fields->fields_options

I've created a table cat_fields

┏━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ id ┃ cat_id ┃ field_id ┃
┣━━━━╋━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━┫
┃ 0  ┃ 1      ┃ 2        ┃
┣━━━━╋━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━┫
┃ 1  ┃ 1      ┃ 1        ┃
┗━━━━┻━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━┛

Now I need this table to get results from category so that I can have all the fields related to category and all the options related to the fields of that category.

Is it possible to get all that in one go?

Answer 1

You didn't show the layout of the other two tables, but presuming each has an ID field, the following should work:

SELECT *
FROM `category`
JOIN `fields`
ON `fields`.`field_id` = `category`.`field_id`
JOIN `field_options`
ON `field_options`.`field_id` = `fields`.`field_id`

Adjust to use the actual column names and table names.