Question

[I am using an example in this question, the real problem I have is very similar, but it would be too complicated to write it down here 😉 ]

So, I have a database table:

  id   |   text
-------+------------
  1    |   Google 
  2    |   Yahoo
  3    |   Google
  4    |   Bing
  5    |   Yahoo
  6    |   Google
  7    |   Yahoo
  8    |   Google

I want to SELECT them all and then display them like this:

Google 4
Yahoo 3
Bing 1

So I want to order the phrases by the number of appearances in the database…
It might sound a bit complicated… But I think my problem can be understood with the example.

So what should I do? What is the appropriate code for this in PHP/MySQL?

Answer 1

select text, count(text) 
from your_table 
group by text
order by count(text) desc