Re: sorry...probably too easy
| From: | Valter Santos | Date: | Wed, 05 Dec 2001 19:27:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: sorry...probably too easy | ||
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> is there a function that will extract the first character from a mysql
> result and put it into a variable?
you can do it directly in SQL:
select * from TABLE_NAME where FIELD_NAME like 'A%'
for all names beginning by 'A'
cheers,
Valter Santos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mateo the DB guy" <whyyousee@yahoo.com>
To: <php-db@lists.php.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:49 PM
Subject: [PHP-DB] sorry...probably too easy
> i'm fairly new to php, and thank you in advance for helping.
> is there a function that will extract the first character from a mysql
> result and put it into a variable?
> the goal is to make one of these browse-by-alpha lists
>
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
> A
> Adam
> Alethea
> Arnie
> B
> Billy
> Buster
> ...
>
> where all the names come from the mysql query, and the anchors are
> automatically built where they need to be.
>
>
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