Question

with my current query and loop:

$sched = mysql_query("SELECT * 
FROM  `shows` 
ORDER BY  `shows`.`show_time` ASC")
or die(mysql_error());  


echo "<ul>";

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sched)){
echo "<li><a href=\"#$row[id]\">";
echo $row['title'];
echo "</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";

This works great for displaying my results like this:

• Name of show 1
• Name of show 2
• Name of show 3

However, I want to add an item to the list at the beginning of every change in day so it would display as follows:

• Monday
• Name of show 1
• Name of show 2
• Tuesday
• Name of show 3
• Wednesday
• Name of show 4

I can’t quite wrap my brain around the loop needed to do this. It might be helpful to know that the field ‘show_time’ is a datetime type, so it has the information for both time and day of week.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Simple tweak:

echo "<ul>";
$curDay='';
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sched)){
   $d=date('l',strtotime($row['show_time']));
   if($d!=$curDay){
     echo '<li>'.$d.'</li>';
   }
   $curDay=$d;
   echo '<li><a href="#',$row['id'],'">',$row['title'],"</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";

Initialize $curDay, and then each time through the loop, check to see if the particular day is different than the last time through the loop (or different from the initial value)