Dynamic rowspan while fetching records from database

Question

Ename   Sal      
tom     100
tom     200
bill    100
bill    250
bill    450
bill    400

This is the query and html structure which has given the

Answer 1

You can check condition like this with the last row and the current row.

$sql = "select * from emp";
$result= mysql_query($sql);
echo "";
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{ 
  $now=$row[0];
  if($last!=$now) {
  echo "";
  }else{
  echo "";
  }
  $last = $row[0];
 }
echo "
$row['ename']
$row['esal']
 
$row['esal']
";

I hope this will help you.