If I understand your question correctly, you want to get both the user data as well as user_links data with a single query while avoiding iterating through it to get the user's data. While this may be possible using result_array, I would advise against it since you will get 0 results when there are no entries in user_links for that particular user.
This is psuedo code but you can probobly do something like this.
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