Re: Group and count at the same time?
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:26:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Group and count at the same time? | ||
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On Thursday 15 August 2002 23:19, Jeff Lewis wrote:
> I am using PHP to maintain a catalog of music and have been just fine with
> it but have run into one thing i want to do and need some advice.
>
> The format of the data is like so:
>
> upc|genre|distributor|details
Where is this info coming from?
> What I want to do is grab a "summary". So it would end up printing out:
>
> rock (43)
> country (41)
>
> and so on. Is this possible to do with one query or will I need to do it
> with more? So I want to count the number of each genre and provide a count
> for each.
If it's from a database then you really should be asking on the php-db list.
Something like:
select genre, count('genre') from catalog group by genre
should work.