On 18-Mar-01 Tom Beidler wrote:
> I'm trying to populate a pulldown menu with distinct values from a found set
> using the following query.
>
> SELECT DISTINCT name FROM request
> WHERE id <= '5' OR demo_id = '$demo_id'
> ORDER BY name
>
> Apparently I am doing something wrong. If I have a record with the same name
> that meets the WHERE parameters and one that doesn't, the name won't appear
> in my pulldown menu.
>
Try your query from mysql, compare the results to your html source (likely
you've muffed a <OPTION> tag).
mysql> select * from request;
+--------+------+---------+
| name | id | demo_id |
+--------+------+---------+
| Stuart | 2 | abc |
| Bob | 5 | edf |
| Stuart | 5 | xyz |
| Stan | 1 | bcd |
| Mark | 1 | lmn |
+--------+------+---------+
5 rows in set (1.06 sec)
mysql> select distinct(name) from request where id <5 or demo_id='lmn';
+--------+
| name |
+--------+
| Stuart |
| Stan |
| Mark |
+--------+
3 rows in set (0.48 sec)
Regards,
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