selectbox dynamic range options

[giloosh]

i would like to dynamically output such a selectbox below using php
and mysql:
<select>
<option< 100 </option>
<option100 to 150 </option>
<option150 to 200 </option>
<option200 to 250 </option>
<option250 to 300</option>
<option 300 </option>
</select>

the selectbox will show a range of available prices of products in a
table

the table has the following fields:
ID
PRICE
ITEM

so depending on the actual prices in the table, the selectbox will
vary.

if the cheapest thing is $1 and the most expensive thing is $1,000,
then the selectbox will change accordingly.
it will break the prices from $1 to $1,000 into categories:
for example...
< 10
10 to 500
500 to 900

>900

i don't know what kind of sql to write to achieve something like this
could you please guide me in the right way to get started on something
like this?

a good example is: on froogle.com
they also have a similar price range search, which is dynamically
generated according to actual search results.

thanks!

[Jerry Stuckle]

giloosh wrote:

On Aug 14, 8:21 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:

>giloosh wrote:

options?

>There you'll have to get all of the prices, sort them and figure out
what your ranges should be.

Yea, makes sense. I would grab all of the prices and put them into one
array and do a bunch of sorting with the array. Could you please give
me an example of what kind of sorting i could do with the array of
prices? I am still a but stuck on that.
Thank you very much for your help!

Check out http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.sort.php and
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.asort.php for starters.
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