OT: More PHP gentle guidance needed - multiple recordsets on a page

Question

I have a client list - it's segregated by 10 different
business categories.
I want to produce an ordered list of clients for each
category, e.g.,
Category 1
client1
client2
Category2
client1
client2
What would be the best way to do that? I know I could have 10
recordsets on
the page, one for each category, and just loop through each
one, but I'm
trying to find a more efficient way of doing that? Or should
I just go this
way?
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Answer 1

:) I don't have to guess.
Actually, I sent you the wrong part of the file, as well.
That one is
designed to seperate and stack on different sides, you needed
the one column
layout.
anyway, i'm tryign to rewrite my stuff with micha's
suggestion
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> I'm looking at this, and looking at Micha's suggestion.
Guess which one I
> like better? 8)
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>> Get all records, order by category
>>
>> If Category=1
>> publish
>>
>> if previous category is same, keep in same group
>> if different, end current group, begin new category
name
>>
>> I have code, but currently is a FUBAR'd mess.
>>
>> see this page:
>>
>>
http://demo.mediachurch.com/news.php
that arranges all articles according
>> to category (group).
>>
>> My code, which *really* needs to be fixed (in
process) and optimized:
>> I'm currently removing the extra variable names I
set (to work with
>> programmer who really didn't like DW recordsets)
>>
>> I'll finish this when I get back from lunch, an
dpost a new copy, bu this
>> might give you a place to start from.
>>
>> //BEGIN TWO COLUMN LAYOUT
>> if($mcColumns == 2){
>> $mcCCount = 1;
>> do {
>>
>> //I setup my variable here
>>
>> //$mcCCount DESIGNATES WHICH DIV SHOULD BE USED. ODD
GET LEFT, EVEN GET
>> RIGHT
>> if ($mcCCount%2){
>> $newsDiv = 'groupListlt';
>> }else {$newsDiv = 'groupListrt';}
>>
>> //SEPERATE ARTICLES INTO GROUPS (ARRAGED BY GROUP,
IF PREVIOUS GROUP
>> ID($pid) MATCHES CURRENT ($newsgroupID) PUT
TOGETHER, ETC.
>> switch($pid) {
>> case '':
>> $newsBag = '<div class="'.$newsDiv.'"
>>
id="'.$row_rsNewsListing['gName'].'"><h2>'.$newsGroupTitle.'</h2><h3>'.$row_rsNewsListing ['newsTitle'].'</h3><div
>>
class="listing">'.$newsContent.'</div><br class="br"
/>';
>> $mcCCount++;
>> break;
>> case $row_rsNewsListing['gID']:
>> $newsBag =
'<h3>'.$row_rsNewsListing['newsTitle'].'</h3><div
>>
class="listing">'.$newsContent.'</div><br class="br"
/>';
>> break;
>> default:
>> $newsBag = '</div><div class="'.$newsDiv.'"
>>
id="'.$row_rsNewsListing['gName'].'"><h2>'.$newsGroupTitle.'</h2><h3>'.$row_rsNewsListing ['newsTitle'].'</h3><div
>>
class="listing">'.$newsContent.'</div><br class="br"
/>';
>> $mcCCount++;
>> break;
>> }
>> $pid = $row_rsNewsListing['gID'];
>> if(empty($row_rsNewsListing['gID'])){//CHECK IN CASE
OF NO ARTICLES
>> TO DISPLAY
>> $newsBag = '<h2>There are currently no
articles to display</h2>';
>> }
>>
>> //PRINT OUT WHAT WE'VE COLLECTED
>> echo $newsBag;
>>
>> //EMPTY VARIABLES FOR NEXT LOOP
>> unset($newsDate);
>> unset($newsContent);
>> unset($newsBag);
>>
>> } while ($row_rsNewsListing =
mysql_fetch_assoc($rsNewsListing)); //END
>> DO WHILE
>>
>> if(!$query_rsNewsListing){
>> mysql_data_seek($rsNewsListing, 0);}//RESET
RECORDSET TO 0
>> echo '</div>';
>> }//END 2 COLUMN
>>
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