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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/24/06 03:06
Jerry M. Gartner wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> As evident from a previous post, I am a php noob. I would like to
> display MySQL query results in an html table with one of the row values as a
> category and the rest of the data displayed under the relevant category.
>
> I can get as far as displaying the data in a nice readable format but I
> don't know how to have the records placed under their corresponding
> category. This is my code thus far (sans the html output):
>
> ...ORDER BY cat ASC';
> while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
> printf("%s Class: %s Description: %s", $row["cat"]$row["title"],
> $row["desc"]);
> }
>
> As you can see, this only outputs each record with the selected rows but
> we show multiple instances of the same category. I know why this works the
> way it does, I just don't know how to make it work the way I want. Advice
> is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Also, any good links for understanding and using arrays are welcome.
Something like:
$cat = ""; // Or any value you would never have for a category
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
if ($row['cat'] != $cat) {
echo $row['cat'] . ' ';
$cat = $row['cat'];
}
echo 'Class: ' . $row['title'] . "Description" . $row['desc'];
}
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