Print same values once in a while loop - php

Question

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblname");
while($fetch =mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
$name = $fetch['name'];
echo "$name";
}
In my example, after echoing out $name in a while, the values are:
Carrots
Lemon
Carrots
Lemon
Is there a way to not repeat printing the same value that will look like this:
Carrots
Lemon
Thank you very much.

Answer 1

$query = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT name FROM tblname");
while($fetch =mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
echo $fetch['name'];
}

Answer 2

SQL Solution:
SELECT DISTINCT `name` FROM tblname;
or
SELECT `name` FROM tblname GROUP BY `name`;
PHP Solution:
$my_array = array();
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblname");
while($fetch =mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
$my_array[] = $fetch['name'];
}
$my_array = array_unique($my_array);
echo implode('<br />', $my_array);

Answer 3

$names = array();
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblname");
while($fetch =mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
$name = $fetch['name'];
if (!in_array($name,$names)){
echo "$name";
$names[] = $name;
}
}
Will work.

Answer 4

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT table1.id, table2.id, table2.name
FROM table1, table2 WHERE id=id GROUP BY name");
This Will Work 100% sure.
SET GROUP BY name and DISTINCT. If not it is not working.

Answer 5

Simply append them into an array like:
$items[] = $item;
After that do:
$items = array_unique($items);
After that, simply print the items.

Answer 6

You can fetch them all into an array and then run array_unique()
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblname");
$arr = array();
while($fetch =mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
$arr[] = $fetch;
}
$output = array_unique($arr);
foreach ($output as $uniqe_val) {
echo $unique_val;
}

Answer 7

I find the question ambiguous. I think you're asking for what appears in How to make a list of unique items from a column w/ repeats in PHP SQL