PHP Mysql Data Arrangement - php

Question

Can anyone help me on how to do this
All the data should come from database and arrange like what has show above.Thanks..

Answer 1

How is this data stored, exactly?
You would ultimately order by the business name and every time a new first character came up, print that as a title.
$get_businesses = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM businesses ORDER BY name ASC");
$last_character = '';
while($res_businesses = mysql_fetch_assoc($get_businesses))
{
$business_name = $res_businesses['name'];
$first_character = strtolower( sub_str($business_name, 0, 1) );
if($first_character !== $last_character){
print '<h1>'.strtoupper($first_character).'</h1>';
}
print '<p>'.$business_name.'</p>';
$last_character = $first_character;
}
If it's from your array
$last_character = '';
foreach($businesses as $business)
{
$business_name = $business['name'];
$first_character = strtolower( sub_str($business_name, 0, 1) );
if($first_character !== $last_character){
print '<h1>'.strtoupper($first_character).'</h1>';
}
print '<p>'.$business_name.'</p>';
$last_character = $first_character;
}
It's ultimately untested but hopefully it'll give you what you need :)

Answer 2

This is a concept not the full code !
//connect to database
$sql="SELECT * FROM ORDER BY DESC";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
//write a dynamic table here
echo "< table > < td >";
if($row['name'] == 'Letter name') //the first letter then go to a new column < br >
}
echo "< /table >";