Re: Group and count at the same time?

Jason, Much appreciated, this worked :) select genre, count('genre') from catalog group by genre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Wong" <php-general@gremlins.com.hk> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Group and count at the same time? > 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. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >