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Old 26th September 2005, 02:45 PM   #1

Username: Ben
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Wink Selecting unique "timestamp"s from a MySQL Database

Hey there...

I have a script that allows someone to add the service times for a chuch into database using time(). There are normally about three church services on the same day.

Basically there is a form where they select the day, month and year. When adding the service to the database, I use this code to convert the service times into timestamp:

PHP Code:
$service_datday mktime(000$HTTP_POST_VARS[month], $HTTP_POST_VARS[day], $HTTP_POST_VARS[year]);
$service_dattime mktime($hour$HTTP_POST_VARS[minute], 0$HTTP_POST_VARS[month], $HTTP_POST_VARS[day], $HTTP_POST_VARS[year]); 

The database tables:

Code:
service_intid service_strname service_datday service_dattime

That all works fine... But now with the question...

Basically what I want to do is select four of the up coming services from the database. That's easy except some days, like I said above, have three services on that one day... So three of the service_datday would be exactly the same because the service is on the same day. I only want to select one of those three from the database.

So basically I would need something like this... This is just a guess of how it would work...

PHP Code:
$query mysql_query("select * from {$tbl_name}services order by unique(service_datday) desc") or die("<b>MySQL Error:</b> ".mysql_error());
while(
$row mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
ect... 

I'm not sure what to use instead of unique(service_datday).

Hopefully that all makes sense

Cheers
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