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help with sql statement - El Forum - 02-06-2009
[eluser]adisaco[/eluser]
If I have a table full of items, and each item has a category, what would be the sql statement that I can use to return html like this:
category one (5 items)
category two (34 items)
category three (17 items)
category four (2 items)
category five (11 items)
help with sql statement - El Forum - 02-06-2009
[eluser]davidbehler[/eluser]
As I don't know what your tables look like in detail I would guess something like this should do the trick:
Code:
SELECT category_name, category_id, COUNT(*) AS item_count FROM category left join item on category.category_id = item.item_category_id GROUP BY category_name, category_id ORDER BY category_name ASC;help with sql statement - El Forum - 02-06-2009
[eluser]adisaco[/eluser]
thx! it worked perfectly