Posted by Andy Hassall on 06/21/05 00:11

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:06:21 GMT, Wayne Delia <wmd@deliafamily.net> wrote:

>Bryan wrote:
>> I've been trying to work out a problem but I'm having no luck. I have
>> field in my table for area and I need to count the number of matches
>> and assign a variable for each one.. this is what I have but it doesn't
>> work.. any ideas?
>>
>> $testcount = mysql_query("select area, count(area) as newcount from rea
>> group by area order by area");
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>MySql queries involving count(columname) require a GROUP BY clause, for
>starters.

Like the one he's already got? :-)

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