How do I concatenate strings from a subquery into a single row in MySQL?

by using the GROUP_CONCAT() function and a GROUP BY call. here’s an example query

SELECT 
   p.package_id,
   p.package_name,
   p.price,
   GROUP_CONCAT(pz.zone_id SEPARATOR ',') as zone_list 
FROM 
   package p 
LEFT JOIN package_zone pz ON p.package_id = pz.package_id 
GROUP BY 
   p.package_id

you should still be able to order by zone_id s (or zone_list), and instead of using LIKE, you can use WHERE zp.zone_id = 'Z1' or something similar.