Problem with construction of a query

I find it hard to build a query. Knowing the user's nickname, I want to display the name of their group assignment (attribute name of the table groups). The id attribute of the table groups is related with attribute id_object table users_groups.

I thought about this query:

select name from groups where id = (select id_group from users_groups where id_object = (select id_user from users where nickname = "foo");

But is there not something cleaner and simpler than subqueries?

It is simpler:
SELECT name FROM groups, users, user_groups WHERE id = id_groups AND id_object = id_user AND nickname LIKE "foo";

If the three tables are in the same basis, otherwise you must use the "inner join"

To explain the problem, I modified the post in the unique identifier of the table users. Thus, id became id_user. Now I work on a relational database schema that I can not change. The query advised to me logically generates this error message:

Quote:

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#1052 - Column 'id' in where clause is ambiguous

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Add the table name like this:

SELECT name FROM groups, users, user_groups WHERE groups.id = users_groups.id_groups AND users_groups.id_object = users.id_user AND nickname LIKE "foo";

You can also give a name to each table in the FROM clause and use something like this for simplicity:

SELECT name FROM groups g, users u, user_groups ug WHERE g.id = ug.id_groups AND ug.id_object = u.id_user AND nickname LIKE "foo";