select - MySQL - insert data from another table merged with constants

Question

I have a temporary table (products_temp) with some data, and I have another table (products) I need to insert the data into. I have some constants I need to set manually on new records, like vendor_id=1, etc...

Is it possible to do the insertion with the temporary table data and the constants in one request?

temp_products:

product_name | product_desc | category_name | mf_name ...

products (category_name, mf_name is not in):

product_id | product_name | product_desc | vendor_id | distributor_id ...

constants:

vendor_id=1, distributor_id=2

Answer 1

Use an INSERT ... SELECT statement where you are selecting constant values as well as data from products_temp:

INSERT INTO products (product_data, vendor_id)
    SELECT data, '1' FROM products_temp