[FX.php List] Getting a set of unique records

Jonathan Schwartz jschwartz at exit445.com
Wed Aug 20 08:45:50 MDT 2008


That's it.  VALUE LIST.  Thanks guys. Sorry for the vague question.

J

At 10:32 AM -0400 8/20/08, Someone wrote:
>try value list on that field
>
>On Aug 20, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Bob Patin wrote:
>
>>Jonathan,
>>
>>Your question wasn't very clear, but if you mean that each record 
>>needs to be unique based on one of the fields, you could loop 
>>through the found set in PHP once you've retrieved it, and only 
>>display unique records. You'd want to sort your query results by 
>>that field, and then loop through, comparing the first record with 
>>the subsequent one each time through the loop.
>>
>>Hope this helps,
>>
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>>On Aug 20, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Folks,
>>>
>>>Drawing a blank on this one.
>>>
>>>I'm querying a many-to-many match table and need to end up just a 
>>>list of unique records based on one of the fields.
>>>
>>>How to do?
>>>
>>>J
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