Using DISTINCT in a CakePHP find function

Question

I am writing a CakePHP 1.2 app. I have a list of people that I want the user to be able to filter on different fields. For each filterable field, I have a drop down list.

Answer 1

You're right, it seems that you cannot use DISTINCT with list. Since you don't need id but only the names, you can use find all like above and then $first_names = Set::extract($first_names, '/Person/first_name');. That will give you a array with distinct first names.