count and fetch rows in php

Question

hey guys

i have a table in my mysql database named (names) now everyone can save their real names

now i want to query this table and find out how many times these names used

forexample the output should be :

Jakob (20) Jenny (17)

now this is my own code :

    list($usernames) =mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query('SELECT name FROM table_user GROUP BY name ORDER BY COUNT(name) DESC LIMIT 50 '));
    list($c) =mysql_num_rows(mysql_query('SELECT COUNT(name) FROM table_user GROUP BY name '));

    print $usernames.'('.$c.')'

is this a correct approach ?!

Answer 1

You can use one select query for this:

$sel_query=mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(name) AS nums, name FROM table_user GROUP BY name");

For outputting, you can use something like this:

while($fetch=mysql_fetch_array($sel_query))
{
   echo $fetch['name']."( ".$fetch['nums']." ) ";
}