How to: foreach without affecting every row? - php

Question

Is there a way to do a foreach on for example your products and sort this by their category_id and show the category name above the products. (I'm using laravel 4 as framework)
Example what the output should look like:
Chairs
wooden chair number 1
pretty chair number 1
pretty chair number 2
Doors
tall door number 1
white door number 1
Key question: How can i make a foreach without having the categoryname above each row ?
Hopefully i made my question/problem clear and can someone help me out!
This is what i got so far:
Though, when i do my foreach in the blade i will get the error: " Undefined index "
The foreach i used in my controller:
foreach($results as $result) {
$category[$result->category_id][] = $result;
}
My foreach in the blade:
#foreach ($category as $key => $product)
<tr>
<td>{{ $product[$key]['created_at'] }}</td>
<td>{{ $product[$key]['order_id'] }}</td>
<td>{{ $product[$key]['name'] }}</td>
</tr>
#endforeach

Answer 1

you are attempting to use category_id to fetch $product from $products, which is array with 0-X indexes. for sake of simplicity i will ignore html formatting and syntax since i never used framework mentioned...
#foreach ($category as $key => $products)
echo 'Category #', $key
#foreach ($products as $product)
<tr>
<td>{{ $product['created_at'] }}</td>
<td>{{ $product['order_id'] }}</td>
<td>{{ $product['name'] }}</td>
</tr>
#endforeach
#endforeach

Answer 2

not completely sure i understand the question. but if im trying to organize an array.. i might use a conditional statement inside the foreach loop. I'm not sure your question is very clear.. see if this helps at all
foreach($results as $result) {
// just an example.. i narrow down what I push into my category array
if($result->type == 'whatever'){
$category[$result->category_id][] = $result;
}
}