Organizing results by category Redux - php

Question

I am trying to expand on my question asked here: Creating a multi-dimensional array from query
I have added a category description to my categories table but I cannot figure out how to add it to the code below and display each category description for each category.
Here is the code I am using to display the items by category:
$itemcategories = array();
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
$head = $row['category'];
$itemcategories[$head][] = array(
'id' => $row['id'],
'title' => $row['title'],
'itemdesc' => $row['itemdesc'],
'price' => $row['price'],
'special' => $row['special']
);
}
<?php foreach ($itemcategories as $head => $items) { ?>
<h3><?php echo $head; ?></h3>
<table class="chart">
<?php foreach ($items as $item) { ?>
<tr><td><?php echo $item['itemdesc']; ?></td></tr>
<?php } ?>
</table>
<?php } ?>

Answer 1

// to initial variable holder
$categories = $items = array();
// looping mysql result
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
// to get category name
$head = $row['category'];
// avoid excessive setting of $categories
if (!isset($categories[$head]))
{
$categories[$head] = $row['descrption'];
}
// assign mysql result to $items
$items[$head][] = $row;
}
// free mysql result
mysql_free_result($result);
// loop all $categories
foreach ($categories as $head=>$desc)
{
// this is my example for printing HTML
// you can use heredoc syntax
// or stick to your existing format
echo "<h3>{$head} - {$desc}</h3><table class="chart">";
foreach ($items[$head] as $item)
{
// print item description
echo "<tr><td>{$item['itemdesc']}</td></tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
}