SQL Distinct Displays

[Anon]

I'm new to PHP and I'm confused on how to call queries. In Coldfusion, I can write a query to find distinct cities in the db for example. Then, later in the program I can call the query using

<cfoutput query = "name">
<option>#city#</option>

This will loop through putting every distinct city that was found as an option. How can I accomplish this in PHP?

[Anon]

check out the php documentation... is it so hard to read it???

[Anon]

No its not. Thanks for taking the time to reply jackass.