alphabet and spaces

[inash]

Hello,

I currently have my list of articles in the database displayed on the web page in alphabetical order. Is there any way I can have it so that there can be an extra line break between all the articles that start with A and all the articles that start with B and so on, just so that it's not one long list?

Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

[lurius]

Assign the first character into a variable. Before printing out new article-header, check if it's same character.
If not, then print linebreak or whatever and save new first character.

Like:

// Initialize with empty or 'A'
$char = '';

// Fetch data from db
while ($x = fetching_something())
{
// Compare
if ($x{0} != $char)
{
$char = $x{0};
echo '<p>'; // or something
}
echo $x;
}

Note, that this compares case-insensitively...

-Lurius