How can you display the most frequently occurring entry from a MySQL database column in PHP?

To display the most frequently occurring entry from a MySQL database column in PHP, you can use a SQL query with the COUNT function to count the occurrences of each entry, then order the results in descending order and limit the results to 1 to get the most frequent entry. 

<?php
// Connect to MySQL database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database";
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// SQL query to get the most frequently occurring entry
$sql = "SELECT column_name, COUNT(column_name) AS occurrences 
        FROM table_name 
        GROUP BY column_name 
        ORDER BY occurrences DESC 
        LIMIT 1";

$result = $conn->query($sql);

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "The most frequently occurring entry is: " . $row["column_name"];
    }
} else {
    echo "No results found";
}

$conn->close();
?>

Keywords

PHP MySQL database column frequency

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