Question

I have a table with five fields, and I need to filter it to be unique first four fields, but in result table I need all five. My function is searching all rows in table that equals data written in the search field, and looks like that:

$query  = "SELECT * FROM `$userstable` WHERE `name` LIKE  '%inputName%' LIMIT 50;";

My table looks like this:

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
provider art   name   serie file
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
AAA      327   music  12FH  deal.wav
AAA      134   cowboy 943   cow.exe
AAA      327   music  12FH  blackjack.omg
BBB      327   music  12FH  deal.wav
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

In Result I want to see is something like this:

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
provider art   name   serie file
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
AAA      327   music  12FH  deal.wav
AAA      134   cowboy 943   cow.exe
BBB      327   music  12FH  deal.wav
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

UPD: It doesn’t matter witch AAA string will be resulted AAA 327 music 12FH deal.wav or AAA 327 music 12FH blackjack.omg

Answer 1

Do you need GROUP BY clause:

SELECT 
  provider, art,   name,   serie, file
FROM 
  `$userstable` 
WHERE 
  `name` LIKE  '%inputName%' 
GROUP BY 
  provider, art,   name,   serie
LIMIT 50

MySql works with hidden fields, that means that your file column may be some of the group file values. If you are looking for a specific value you need an aggregate function ( max, min, group_concat, … ) or a subquery.