IF and while statement curly braces problem

[bostonmacosx]

$cat_query = mysql_query("SELECT * from news_categories");
$story_html = '';
while($row_cat = mysql_fetch_array($cat_query)){

is just a simple query and array loop.

I want to be able to change this based on an if statement.

if($x==1){
$cat_query = mysql_query("SELECT * from news_categories");
$story_html = '';
while($row_cat = mysql_fetch_array($cat_query)){
}
else
{

$blah = explode(":",$variable);
foreach($blah as $blah)){
}

You can see how the IF statement curly brace interefere with the while loop and the foreach loops. I can't get my head around how to do this. I don't want to have to reproduce the code in between the while statement twice one for the while and one for the foreach.

thanks

[drew010]

its not possible to mingle control structures like that in any language that i know of. if you dont want to reproduce the code why not put it in a function and just call the function in both structures, that way its just 2 of the same 1 line...