Question

I’m having trouble ‘sorting’ my mysql results in php.

Here’s the database I have

id¦ value  ¦ category
---------------------------
1 ¦ Value1 ¦ category1
2 ¦ Value2 ¦ category2
3 ¦ Value3 ¦ category2
4 ¦ Value4 ¦ category3
5 ¦ Value5 ¦ category1
6 ¦ Value6 ¦ category1

What I’m trying to do, is to get a result in php looking like this:

category1

• Value1
• Value5
• Value6

category2

• Value2
• Value3

category3

• Value4

Any help is useful. Thanks

Answer 1

thanks everyone for the help. I’m going to use a mix of AlienWebguy’s and jchavannes’s code which is working perfect, just what i was searching for.

the code looks like this:

SQL:

$SQL = "SELECT * FROM table_name";
$results = mysql_query($SQL);

PHP:

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {
    $myArray[$row['category']][] = $row['value'];   
}

foreach($myArray as $key => $val)
{
    echo $key;
    echo '<ul>';

    foreach($val as $v)
    {
        echo '<li>' . $v . '</li>';
    }

    echo '</ul>';
}