Question

I am trying to return a custom query, which renders each row once, however sometimes the table it queries is the same… For example. My output code currently is this…

//Query one returns each instance of an object. There are two of the first, one of the second.
13775
13775
66777

//Query two returns each bit of information against the first object. 
// As you can see its loading the first too twice because of the query above being the same...
SID=13775 TOKEN=b8r5x6w53d6cahw
SID=13775 TOKEN=p5ugbeg68b4qixy

SID=13775 TOKEN=b8r5x6w53d6cahw
SID=13775 TOKEN=p5ugbeg68b4qixy

SID=66777 TOKEN=4c85zznh955gjsc

My code is as follows for the above display…

//Query table where firstname, lastname and email all match

$query = "SELECT * FROM lime_all_tokens WHERE fname='".$fname."' AND lname ='".$lname."'";

//execute query
$result = mysql_query($query) or die ("Error in query: $query. ".mysql_error());

$sid = array();

// see if any rows were returned
if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
    // yes
    // print them one after another
    $i = 0;
    while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
        //Shows the SID's
        echo $row[5]."<br />";

        //Add into the DB in order...
        $sid[] = $row[5];   
        $i++;     
    }       
}

// free result set memory
mysql_free_result($result);

for ($j = 0; $j < $i; $j++) {
    $querytokens = "SELECT * FROM lime_tokens_".$sid[$j]." WHERE firstname='".$fname."' AND lastname ='".$lname."'";

    echo $tokens[$j]."<br />";

    //execute query
    $resulttokens = mysql_query($querytokens) or die ("Error in query: $querytokens. ".mysql_error());

    // see if any rows were returned

    //print_r(mysql_fetch_row($resulttokens));

    while($rowtokens = mysql_fetch_row($resulttokens)) {        
        //Display our token
        echo "SID=".$sid[$j]." TOKEN=".$rowtokens[5]."<br />";
        $displayonce = false;
    }       

}


echo "<br /><br /><h2>There are a total of ".$i." calls availible!</h2>";

// free result set memory
mysql_free_result($resulttokens);

// close connection
mysql_close($connection);

How can i get it to return the data properly? i.e

13775
13775
66777

SID=13775 TOKEN=b8r5x6w53d6cahw

SID=13775 TOKEN=p5ugbeg68b4qixy

SID=66777 TOKEN=4c85zznh955gjsc

Answer 1

IMHO you could change first query to:

SELECT DISTINCT id 
FROM lime_all_tokens 
WHERE fname='".$fname."' AND lname ='".$lname."'"