Question

I have sent $data[‘items’] to my view which has created an array full of objects which I can echo with a foreach loop.

foreach($items as $row)
  {
    echo $row->NAME . " - " . $row->COLOUR . "<br>";
  }

what I want to do is echo them to the browser in groups with the name of the colour as a header tag then start the loop for that colour. I’m just not sure what type of loop to do or should I have a loop within a loop?

BLUE

-item 1

-item 3

RED

-item 2

-item 4

-item 5

Answer 1

$list = array();
foreach($items as $row)
{
  $list[$row->COLOUR][] = $row->NAME;
}

$header = null;
foreach($list as $item)
{
  if($header != $item->COLOUR)
  {
    echo '<h3>' . $item->COLOUR . '</h3>';
    $header = $item->COLOUR;
  }
  echo '- ' . $item->NAME . '<br />';
}