Question

I want this type of output to fetch task_name from database like in this format

Task 10 Task 2 Task 3 Task 5........

My Query is

 SELECT task_name, section_name, ref_student_id
 FROM scores
 WHERE ref_student_id = '".$studentid."'
    AND section_name = 'sm1'
 GROUP BY task_name

So I want to output like this..

 Task 2 Task 3 Task 5 Task 10........
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Solution

use this

"SELECT task_name, section_name, ref_student_id
 FROM scores
WHERE ref_student_id = '1'
AND section_name = 'sm1'
GROUP BY task_name
ORDER BY cast( SUBSTRING( task_name, 5 ) AS unsigned ) ASC"   

OTHER TIPS

"select task_name,section_name,ref_student_id from scores where ref_student_id = '".$studentid."' and section_name = 'sm1' GROUP BY task_name order by task_name ASC "

Order by Ascending

use this

SELECT task_name, section_name, ref_student_id
FROM scores
WHERE ref_student_id = '".$studentid."'
AND section_name = 'sm1'
ORDER BY ltrim(task_name) ASC          //order by should come for ordering....
GROUP BY task_name

instead of

SELECT task_name, section_name, ref_student_id
FROM scores
WHERE ref_student_id = '".$studentid."'
AND section_name = 'sm1'
GROUP BY task_name
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