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Your problem is in your loop. Notice how many times its repeating, it's repeating the SECTION stuff as many times as their is categories in that section. I had 2 tables like this...
Table: Sections
section_id | section
1 | Section 1
2 | Section 2
3 | Section 3
Table: Categories
cat_id | section_id | category
1 | 1 | Category 1
2 | 2 | Category 2 (in section 2)
3 | 1 | Cat 3
4 | 3 | Cat 4 (in section 3)
Then I had a loop within a loop, with 2 queries. Like so
I'm sure joins and Group by could make this more efficient, but I'm much too tired for more thinking right now, hope I helped, which I think may be unlikely for what I just did.
Table: Sections
section_id | section
1 | Section 1
2 | Section 2
3 | Section 3
Table: Categories
cat_id | section_id | category
1 | 1 | Category 1
2 | 2 | Category 2 (in section 2)
3 | 1 | Cat 3
4 | 3 | Cat 4 (in section 3)
Then I had a loop within a loop, with 2 queries. Like so
Code:
$sect_sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM sections ORDER BY section");
while ($sect_result = mysql_fetch_assoc($sect_sql)) {
$sect_id = $sect_result['sect_id'];
echo "<b>".$sect_result['section']."</b><br>";
$cat_sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM categories WHERE cat_id = $cat_id ORDER BY category");
while ($cat_result = mysql_fetch_assoc($cat_sql) {
echo $cat_result['category']."<br>";
}
}I'm sure joins and Group by could make this more efficient, but I'm much too tired for more thinking right now, hope I helped, which I think may be unlikely for what I just did.