Group PHP results on first letter of name

Question

I have a query which gets all records ordered by last_name. Now I would like to create a loop that groups these results by the first letter of the last name and display the

Answer 1

In your view you could then loop the records and split them up:

$current = '';
foreach ($rows as $r) {
    if (!$current || strtolower($r['name'][0]) != $current) {
        $current = strtolower($r['name'][0]);
        echo strtoupper($current).'
---------------';
    }
    echo $row['name'].'
';
}