Group PHP results on first letter of name

Question

I have a query which gets all records ordered by last_name. Now I would like to create a loop that groups these results by the first letter of the last name and display the

Answer 1

in your query, try adding something like:

group by substr(last_name,1,1)

i.e.

select substr(last_name,1,1) as alpha, *
from tableName
group by substr(last_name,1,1)