Re: [PHP] Group and count at the same time?

2002-08-15 Thread Jeff Lewis
Jason, Much appreciated, this worked :) select genre, count('genre') from catalog group by genre - Original Message - From: "Jason Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Group an

Re: [PHP] Group and count at the same time?

2002-08-15 Thread Dan Tappin
I think you want something like this: SELECT genre, COUNT(*) as count FROM music GROUP BY genre; Dan > I am using PHP to maintain a catalog of music and have been just fine with > it but have run into one thing i want to do and need some advice. > > The format of the data is like so: > > upc|

Re: [PHP] Group and count at the same time?

2002-08-15 Thread Jason Wong
On Thursday 15 August 2002 23:19, Jeff Lewis wrote: > I am using PHP to maintain a catalog of music and have been just fine with > it but have run into one thing i want to do and need some advice. > > The format of the data is like so: > > upc|genre|distributor|details Where is this info coming f

Re: [PHP] Group and count at the same time?

2002-08-15 Thread Adam Williams
You could do it if you had a table with each genre of music. // get each genre while ($genre = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query(select * from genre_table)); { // sql query to fetch the # of albums of a specific genre $sql = mysql_query(select count($genre) as count from album_table where genre =".$g

[PHP] Group and count at the same time?

2002-08-15 Thread Jeff Lewis
I am using PHP to maintain a catalog of music and have been just fine with it but have run into one thing i want to do and need some advice. The format of the data is like so: upc|genre|distributor|details What I want to do is grab a "summary". So it would end up printing out: rock (43) countr