Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:
Hey all-
I've run into a small bump in some code I'm writing for a membership database. The first thing that needs to be done is an index of all states in the US with members. The fun part is that the state information is stored as the abbreviation in the database (ie MI, WI) and the HTML page needs to display the full name of the State. I want to display the information in a four column table that kicks out as many rows as needed. Now in order to get the full name of the state, I'm running the state result through a switch statement. Actaully, it's working rather well expect for this little issue:
Row 8: South Dakota Tennessee Texas Virgina Row 9: West Virgina Wisconsin Texas Virgina
I need to kill that extra Texas and Virgina.....here's how I'm doing this:
<table border=1>
<?
$query=mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT state FROM members WHERE country='US' ORDER BY state ASC"); while($q=mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
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Hi Tom
Seeing as you are already using mysql, why not create a lookup table with the following fields:
state_abbreviation, state_full_name
And your query to :
SELECT DISTINCT b.state_full_name FROM members a, state_lookup b WHERE a.country='US' AND b,state_abbreviation = a.state ORDER BY b.state_full_name ASC
This shifts the data processing work to MySQL (which is what it is designed for) - you can also use the state lookup table for user input validation if needed.
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