Re: displaing news

rough outline of what you would need to do..... this is pseudocode.. I'm too tired to write correct php :) $is_first=true; whlie(get next result entry) { if($is_first) { $last-date=date of this entry; $this-date=date of this entry; $is_first=false; } if($this-date==$last-date) { just put the article after the current one } else { start a new section, displaying date etc } $last-date=$this-date; } ----- Original Message ----- From: <nate@1feehosting.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 5:24 PM Subject: [PHP] displaing news Hey all! I have a slight problem I was hoping you could help me with. I wrote earlier but no response (so one last try). I'm writing a little news script for my site, and well here is the scenario: The SHORT: I have news,headline,author,date,time,etc. all in a table in a mysql db, that I use mysql_fetch_array to pull out of the db and display on a page. It shows everything fine, but I was wondering, if there is more than one news entry per day, how can I display 1 date above the news entries for that day. (Instead of a seperate date for each news entry). The LONG: I have 2 tables in a mysql database, one holds author information (name, email, password, etc.) The other table holds the news that they submit (news, date, time, headline, etc.) Now I am trying to display the news on a page, ordered of course by date (or id in this case) and well i'm using the code below. <?php $db = mysql_pconnect("localhost"); mysql_select_db("news",$db); $result1 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM news,authors ORDER BY id DESC",$db); while($myrow=mysql_fetch_array($result1)) { echo "<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><img src=images/r13.gif></td><td background=images/r14.gif width=100%><p><font size=2 face=verdana color=white><strong>" . $myrow["headline"] . "</strong></FONT> <font size=1 face=verdana color=white><br>Posted by <A HREF=mailto:" . $myrow["email"] . ">" . $myrow["author"] . "</A> at " . $myrow["time"] . $myrow["$tod"] . "</FONT></td><td><img src=images/r15.gif></td></tr></table><br><FONT COLOR=white SIZE=2 FACE=verdana>" . $myrow["news"] . "<br><br>"; } ?> So the results would look something like: $Headline Posted by $author at $time $news and it would of course just repeat, for however many entries there is. Now the problem: If I enter 4 news posts a day, I want to show 1 date above all the news posts. (Instead of 1 date next to each news post) Any idea how I can do this (In easy to understand lingo/code please)? Thanks! Nate