How to select unique arrays from MySQL table row?

Question

I have a table with 20 rows and one row have for example:

2,3,5,6,8,22
2,3,5,6,8,22,44,55
etc.

How can I select from mysql table rows only unique numbers, not duplicated so results are:

2,3,5,6,8,22,44,55

The table definition:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `test` (

  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,

  `active` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '1',

  `facilities` varchar(50) NOT NULL,

  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)

) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=4 ;

INSERT INTO `test` (`id`, `active`, `facilities`) VALUES

(1, 1, '1,3,5,6,7,8'),

(2, 1, '2,3,4,5,8,9'),

(3, 1, '4,5,6,7,9,10');

Here is my attempt:

SELECT DISTINCT facilities FROM test WHERE active='1'

$dbgeneral= explode(',', $row['facilities']);


$facilities = array(

"Air Conditioning" => "2",

"Balcony" => "4");

foreach ($facilities as $facilities=> $v) {

     if(in_array($v,$dbgeneral)) {

echo '';

}
}

Answer 1

Use King's answer, he nailed it better than I would have anyways.

Answer 2

--removed-- since it was wrong/ didn't answer the question (based on the extra data provided). Felix Kling's answer is much better.

Answer 3

As this is only one field, you could do something like:

$result = mysql_query('SELECT facilities FROM table');

$facilities = array();

while(($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))) {
    $facilities = array_merge($facilities , explode(',', $row[0]));
}

$facilities = array_unique($facilities);

But you should consider to change your database design, it looks like your data is not normalized.

Reference: explode(), array_merge(), array_unique()

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Depening on what kind of queries you want to do, a better table layout would be:

 | id  | facility |
 |  2  | 1        |
 |  2  | 2        |
 |  2  | 3        |
 ...
 |  3  | 1        |
 |  3  | 7        |
 |  3  | 9        |
 ...

and then you could just do:

SELECT DISTINCT facility FROM ...