Creating category lists with php (David Powers???)

Question

I am creating a dynamic content website with numerous entries under various categories. The categories are kept in a seperate mysql that looks something like this (an example):
ID
Main
Sub
1
food
candy
2
food
meat
3
drink
coke
4
drink
snapple
5
drink
dr. pepper
6
food
bread
I have created a page where the user can see all of the main categories. In the above case, food and drink. I do not want 'food' and 'drink' to be repeated three times. So I have used php code which david powers gives in his recipe: http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Create_nested_lists_from_a_recordset__PHP_-16720.html.
The problem is that in the above case, the page will list: food, drink, food. This is because when the php passes through the 'drink's it then sees the last 'food' as being unique.
How do I get rid of this issue (without having to to continuosly reorder my mysql table)?
thanks
P.S. I am posting this here and not on the above recipe page because I am hoping for a quicker response.

Answer 1

Re: David Powers cs5 with php...Zend
Ok I'm gonna try and help ya until David gets here. Since I use Zend and have read parts of his book.
First, are you trying to install zend at godaddy?
Your include file is odd. "include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:C:\Users\Becky\Desktop\colts \ZF\ZendFramework-1.11.4-minimal\library') in/home/content/79/7340479/html/library.php" - means PHP and Zend are located on 2 different machines
I appreciate it. the "C:\Users\Becky\Desktop\colts \ZF\ZendFramework-1.11.4-minimal\library' is where the file path.I use Godaddy but I have it zend on my computer and am just trying to get it to run. I tried running it from desktop, C:(where it's at), andneven put it in the file manager on godaddy and tried that path...
the code I'm using is:
<?php
$library = 'C:\Users\Becky\Desktop\colts\ZF\ZendFramework-1.11.4-minimal\library';
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $library);
require_once('Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php');
$loader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
if ($loader) {
echo 'OK';
} else {
echo 'We have a problem';
I'm followed the book step by step but...
when i click autoloader.php in the tab bar it has a get option. but when i click it it says "operation failed because it is not on the remote site.