how should i set up my variable to do this?

[beloved__one]

okay...im not real positive on the best way to do this but here's sorta what i was thinking. i want to have a variable that does something like

if ($category = action) {
print "<a href=\"#\">";
}

but im confused as to what i set "$category" to...the page is setup to query my database and display all the games in a certain category and next to each game i want to display a link to the main section of each game (ie 'action games')....do i set "$category" to "genre" (which is the field that contains what each genre of game is)? if you go HERE you'll see what im trying to do...i just did that with html...it's the small text in parenthese next to each game....i hope i explained all the correctly...sorry if i didn't...

[Shrike]

Assuming that you get your data out of the database (MySQL?)with something like

$sql = "SELECT name, genre FROM games ORDER BY genre";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while($data = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
  if($data['genre'] == "action"){
    print ....
  }
}

But then you might as well use the Genre column directly:

$sql = "SELECT name, genre FROM games ORDER BY genre";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while($data = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
    print($data['name']." (".ucfirst($data['genre']).")";
}