MySQL (or PHP?) group results by field data

Question

I have a MySQL database that looks similar to this:

ID    Group   Name

1       1       John
2       1       Andrea
3       1       Jack
4       2       Mike         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

// SQL stuff

$group = null;

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
    if($row['group'] != $group)
    {
        echo $row['group'];
        $group = $row['group'];
    }

    $row['name'];
}