Re: get one name for each row

2002-05-02 Thread Pradeep Dsouza
Try this Table : col1 : col2 1. Hotel 1 select name = my_selection ?php include config.php; $res = mysql_query(SELECT * FROM tname); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) { $col1 = $row[col1]; $col2 = $row[col2]; option value = \$col1\

Re: get one name for each row

2002-05-02 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
savaidis, Thursday, May 02, 2002, 11:07:18 AM, you wrote: s I have one table with about 1000 hotels and name or the city they belong. s I want to run a query to get one row for every city only, to put it in a s pull down menu in the search form. s How is that? Try SELECT DISTINCT city FROM

RE: get one name for each row

2002-05-02 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I have one table with about 1000 hotels and name or the city they belong. I want to run a query to get one row for every city only, to put it in a pull down menu in the search form. How is that? [/snip] SELECT DISTINCT city FROM tblFOO So if you have this table;

Re: get one name for each row

2002-05-02 Thread Issvar
It might be faster to instead of getting the list of cities and then in seperate queries get all hotels for each city, to just sort by city and fetch all, and in your application check if it has found a next city already. Example in php: $res=mysql_query('select hotel,city from hotels order by

RE: get one name for each row

2002-05-02 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] It might be faster to instead of getting the list of cities and then in seperate queries get all hotels for each city, to just sort by city and fetch all, and in your application check if it has found a next city already. [/snip] Of course, you could use a single crosstab query and get

RE: get one name for each row

2002-05-02 Thread savaidis
- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:23 PM To: 'savaidis'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: get one name for each row [snip] I have one table with about 1000 hotels and name or the city they belong. I want to run a query to get one row for every city

RE: get one name for each row

2002-05-02 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip from mysql list message] I tried select distinct Location from hotels1 order by Location and worked. But how can I show all fields of the rows? It doesn't accept any field before distinct and shows every row after distinct (if I put select distinct Location, Name ... ) [/snip] Can we see

RE: get one name for each row

2002-05-02 Thread savaidis
-hotels.gr Makis -Original Message- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 6:59 PM To: 'savaidis'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: get one name for each row [snip from mysql list message] I tried select distinct Location from hotels1 order