On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Ahmed Abdel-Aliem wrote: > Hi, > i have a tables in database which fields is > id - title - category > > what i want to do is to display the categories entered in the > categories fields, without repeating any of them > for eample if the records is like follow > > ID Title Cattegory > 1 Matrix Sci-Fi > 2 Spartacus History > 3 Alexander History > 4 whatever Horror > > i want to list the categories only like this > > Sci-Fi - History - Horror > > can anyone help me throught this please ? Use DISTINCT in your query, maybe? SELECT DISTINCT Cattegory from tablename; Hope that helps. Ed -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php