Question

this may be very easy to do but I do not even know how to formulate my problem for search engines (google | stackoverflow).

I am trying to create a HTML form based on data from database.
my problem:
I have table with these columns:

1. id
2. file
3. language
4. etc…

filled with data (example):

//no < table > here
//only **file** column is really important for my select (that I am asking for)

id |    file            |  lanugage     | etc
====================================================================
1  |about.php           | english       | something
2  |conta.php           | english       | something
3  |mysql.php           | hungar        | something
4  |mysql.php           | english       | something
5  |mysql.php           | french        | something
6  |blog.php            | french        | something

after the select I am asking for array should look like this

0 => about.php, 1 => conta.php, 2 => mysql.php, 3 => blog.php

SOLUTION
I was looking for distinct option of SELECT
or
SELECT t1.file as Files from table as t1 group by Files

well this was fast 🙂 thanks

Answer 1

It sounds like you want to

SELECT distinct(file) FROM mytable;

and then use

mysql_fetch_array()

something like that:

$result=mysql_query("SELECT distinct(file) FROM mytable");
$arr=array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $arr[] = $row[0];
}