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Displaying a table in PHP with repeated columns

I want to display some MySQL data in a particular structured manner.
Let’s say for example I have this data in MySQL Database

id         sections                 items
1          Section A                Item 1
1          Section A                Item 2
1          Section A                Item 3
1          Section A                Item 4
1          Section B                Item 5
1          Section B                Item 6
1          Section C                Item 7
1          Section C                Item 8
1          Section A                Item 9
1          Section D                Item 10
1          Section D                Item 11

How do I get it to display like this in PHP:

SECTION A
---------

Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4
Item 9


SECTION B
---------

Item 5
Item 6


SECTION C
---------

Item 7
Item 8

SECTION D
---------

Item 10
Item 11

Answer 1

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT sections, items 
                    FROM my_table 
                    ORDER BY sections");
$lastSection = '';
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
   if($lastSection != $row['sections'])
       echo $row['sections'] . '<br />';
   echo $row['items'] . '<br />';
   $lastSection = $row['sections'];
}