The more I get into arrays, the less I understand.
I have a ridiculously simple task which excapes me completely.
I need to ouput all fields in 1 column from 1 table in two phases sorted
alphabetically.
So, I have the query, I have the results. But since I need to split the
list into 2 parts, I need indexes. I cannot use the table index as it
does not correspond to the alphabetical order of the data column. In
order to get the index, I sort the resulting array and that now gives me
34 arrays each containing an array of my results. Wonderful!
But how do I now extract the arrays from the array?
Here is what I'm trying to do:
$SQL = "SELECT category
FROM categories
ORDER BY category ASC
";
$category = array();
if ( ( $results = mysql_query($SQL, $db) ) !== false ) {
while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results) ) {
$category[$row['category']] = $row;
}
sort($category);
//var_dump($category);
echo "<table >";
$count = mysql_num_rows($results);
$lastIndex = $count/2 -1; echo $lastIndex;
$ii = 0;
$cat = '';
//print_r($category['0']['category']);
foreach($category as $index => $value) {
$ii++;
if ($ii != $lastIndex) {
$cat .= "$value, ";
}
else {
$cat .= " & $value<br />";
}
$catn = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/", "", $cat);
//echo "<pre>$category</pre>";
echo "<tr>
<td><a href='../categories/", $catn, ".php'>", $cat, "</a>
</td>
</tr>" ;
}
}
echo "</table>";
What should I be using in the foreach line?
Please help!
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