From: "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Philip J. Newman wrote:
>
> > Don't know is this is a Mysql problem or PHP, but I have a table with
100 records in it.  One of the field names is $iName.
> >
> > When listing all the records I want only the 1st Uneak value to be
displayed.
> >
> > For excample
> >
> > if values where, Bob, Jan, Mike, James, Bob, James, James, Mike ...
> >
> > I would like to call: Bob, Jan, Mike, James ... Any Idenas
> >
>
>
> I suspect you mean the mysql field name is 'iName', not '$iname' ($iName
> being the PHP variable name).
>
> try
>
> select distinct(iName) from tablename
>
> and loop through those result sets.

Almost right. DISTINCT is not a SQL function:

select distinct iName from tablename

would be the correct syntax.




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