How to Show a Table data with Alphabetical Table in Php mySql? - php

Question

I have a dictionary database with 950 rows of data. I would like to show the words list in alphabetical order in alphabetical table wise.
For an example table a shows first (5) words of data's starts from A:
A
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Abacus
Abelian group
Abscissa
Absolute Value
Abstract Number
B
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Bar Graph
Base
Base Depth of the Triangular Prism
Base of the Triangular Prism
Basic arithmetic operations
.
.
.
Z
---------------
Z-Intercept
Zero
Zero Divisors
Zero Element
Zone
every 5 data's fetch table should stop the current letter and jump to next letter.
I don't know how to do this.
My Table structure is
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Name | Type
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Id | int(3)
Word | varchar(45)
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Answer 1

You should extract first letter with left
select left(word, 1) from table;
function and use huge union all query. details is described with examples in here.

Answer 2

I tried below query which has limit for now of 3.
In short what we have to do is - group by sorted words and limit to n
Created table as word_table
CREATE TABLE `offers`.`word_table` ( `Id` INT(3) NOT NULL , `Word`
VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL ) ENGINE = InnoDB;
Inserted your record in table
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('1', 'Abacus');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('2', 'Abelian group');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('3', 'Abscissa');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('4', 'Absolute Value');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('5', 'Abstract Number');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('6', 'Bar Graph');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('7', 'Base');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('8', 'Base Depth of the Triangular Prism');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('9', 'Base of the Triangular Prism');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('10', 'Basic arithmetic operations');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('11', 'Z-Intercept');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('12', 'Zero');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('13', 'Zero Divisors');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('14', 'Zero Element');
INSERT INTO `word_table` (`Id`, `Word`) VALUES ('15', 'Zone');
Query written for required output
SELECT x.*
FROM (SELECT t.*,
CASE
WHEN #category != substring(t.Word,1,1) THEN #rownum := 1
ELSE #rownum := #rownum + 1
END AS rank,
#category := substring(t.Word,1,1) AS var_category
FROM word_table t
JOIN (SELECT #rownum := NULL, #category := '') r
ORDER BY t.Word) x
WHERE x.rank <= 3
ORDER BY `x`.`var_category` ASC
OUTPUT
Hope this helps you!!!

Answer 3

You can use a single query to get the result of both the distinct first character and all the records with that letter as starting letter by using this
SELECT lower(left(filed_name,1)) as letter, group_concat(filed_name) as all_records FROM `table_name` where lower(left(filed_name,1)) in(SELECT DISTINCT LEFT(filed_name, 1) FROM table_name order by filed_name) group by lower(left(filed_name,1)) ORDER BY filed_name ASC