On Mon, June 6, 2005 5:32 am, Jack Jackson said:
> I'm trying to fetch similar things - in this case, rows which share a
> series ID no - and bring them into an array and display them grouped by
> what makes them similar (in this case, series id). I looked at implode
> and explode which seem wrong for this - the only separator I can see is
> that they're each in a table cell.
$query = " select series_id, ... from ... ";
$query .= " ORDER BY series_id, ... ";
$art = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
$series = array();
while (list($series_id, ...) = mysql_fetch_row($art)){
$series[$series_name][] = "<a href=$art_id>$art_title</a>";
}
while (list($name, $links) = each($series)){
echo "<p>$name<br />", implode(" | ", $links), "</p>\n";
}
>
> The result of my query returns something like:
>
> art_id series_id art_title series_name
> 2 1 Weddings 2004 Summer Special
> 4 1 Summer In The City Summer Special
> 5 2 Bags of NY Op-Art
> 7 2 Dogs of NY Op-Art
>
>
> I'd like to create a list of links to each art_id grouped together as
> series, href code obviously not complete but demonstrative:
>
> <p>Summer Special<br />
> <a href='2'>Weddings 2004</a> | <a href='4'>Summer In The City</p>
>
> <p>Op-Art<br />
> <a href='5'>Bags of NY</a> | <a href='7'>Dogs of NY</p>
You could actually use:
ORDER BY series_date, series_name, series_id, art_id, art_title, art_id
or something like that, so long you are sorting first and foremost by the
SERIES information, and any other sorting happens AFTER all series_*
fields.
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