Question

I am running a query to populate a dropdown menu, however the column I am using a list of company names, this means that the company name is often repeated, is there way to only get each repeated value only once? So for instance if I have in the table something like,

Company 1
Company 1
Company 2
Company 3
Company 4
Company 4

But I would like the dropdown to return,

Company 1
Company 2
Company 3
Company 4

I am using the database libray and active record to write the sql like this currently I need to know what I use to only show each result once,

function getAllUsers() {
    $this->db->select('*');
    $this->db->from('userProfileTable');

    $query = $this->db->get();
    return $query->result_array();
}

Or what would the raw sql be?

Answer 1

Use:

$this->db->distinct();
$this->db->select('*');
$this->db->from('userProfileTable');
$query = $this->db->get();
return $query->result_array();