Question

I have data from MySQL showing all organisations a customer got, with all details of employess in each organisation. I want to list each organisation name only once i.e. in a single cell ( row span) and all employees in that organisation against this name like:

Org1     Emp1 Name, Emp1 Phone, Emp1 Address          Emp2 Name, Emp2 Phone, Emp2 Address   Org2     Emp1 Name, Emp1 Phone, Emp1 Address          Emp2 Name, Emp2 Phone, Emp2 Address 

How do I display this data because the number of employess for each organisation is not known in advanced, so I do’nt about setting value of rowspan. Similarly how do I start a row for other organisation? Do I have to write two queries?

Many Thanks.

Answer 1

Classic.

Workaround: only display the name if different than the previous one. You can even not bother about the rowspan (you keep an empty cell).

$currentOrg = ''; while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($query)) {    if ($row->org != $currentOrg) {       echo '$row->org'.    }    $currentorg = $row->org; } 

Not the most beautiful but so simple.