prevention of duplication on an array

[gabrielkolbe]

Hi, I would be grateful if someone can help me here, I am querying an table with several different suppliers in, how do I echo out an array without repeating the same supplier twice, does any one know of such an function??
I would be grateful.

Thanks

[ober]

SELECT DISTINCT(supplier_name), other_field1, otherfield2 FROM tablexyz WHERE blah blah

[gabrielkolbe]

Hi, thanks for the answer, but it is not what I want, I don't want / need a SQL solution to the problem the solution must be a PHP solution.

[ober]

That's the most efficient way to achieve your required results, so that's what I provided. You didn't specify.

array_unique will probably get you what you want, but I'm going to assume that's probably to simple for what you're after, so the only thing left is to copy used array values to a temp array and then use in_array to check that for "used" array values.

[gabrielkolbe]

thanks