Question

I have a mysql table with records dating from 2006 to present (and ongoing), all with datetime stamps

What is the smartest/easiest way to extract all YEARS only and make a pagination link for each year (dynamically)?
Like this: 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Isn’t this too clumsy and uses too many resources for that simple task?:

@mysql_query("SELECT YEAR(date) AS yearonly FROM table GROUP BY yearonly");

Answer 1

I think your solution is OK.

Using select distinct is another possibility

SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(date) AS yearonly FROM table