Alex, > I have two tables in my database with a department name. > One table (department), the name only appears once and it includes all > departments in the school. In the other table, (courses) department can > appear several times, but not all departments will be in the table. > > I used the following code to try to get the names of the departments from > the courses table, but unfortunately I get all occurences of the department. > Can someone help me get ony one occurrence of each department from the > courses table. > > $query = "select departments.department, courses.department from > departments, courses where departments.department=courses.department"; > $result = mysql_query($query); Check out MySQL's DISTINCT modifier. Regards, =dn -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
