New Class instances by increment?

[gncnew]

I dont know if this should go to the newbie area but I think it may be a little beyond that (I hope 😕).

I've got a db going with "family" details and I'm making up my classes right now to connect to them and such. What I'm trying to do right now is create first a class as a "constructor" for the generic "family" properties (i.e. "last name", "address", "phone number"...).

Then I'd like to have another class/function that will actually create instances of the "family" constructor but the variable name (or object name) would be incremented through each iteration or row in the database.

Here is an example of what I'm trying to do (with just the last name variable in play):

class family{
	//family contsructor
	var $LNAME;
	}

class buildfam{
		function createfams(){
			$mainqry = new mainqry();
			$result=$mainqry->mainqrystring();
			$i=1;
			while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
//here is my rub, how do I tack on a incremented value to the end of "$fam"??
				$fam= new family();
				$fam->LNAME=$row['LNAME'];
				$i++;
			}
		}
	}

I've got a class that connects to my db, another class that builds my queries (either a complete listing like I'm using here or a detailed listing based on supplied arguments), and then I'm going to use other classes to actually display this information. I'd like to gather the info into an object that I can use the "display" classes to manipulate rather than having to use a ridiculously long "echo" string under the "while($row=mysql_fetch...." line.

I'm new-ish to PHP, so If I'm being a moron here, please let me know.

[gncnew]

I just decided to forget creating it as an object and put my html into another class and then pull the elements of that class into my echo strings:

class html{
	//html to be plugged into the builder
	var $divclose= '</div>';
	var $boxtop='<div class="famwrap">';
	var $name='<div class="namebox">';
	var $details='<div class="details">';
	var $pic='<div class="pic">';
	}


class display{
//this will display info

	function showfamily(){
		$mainqry = new mainqry();
		$result=$mainqry->mainqrystring();
		$block=new html();
		while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
			echo $block->boxtop . $block->name;
			echo $row['LNAME'];
			echo $block->divclose . $block->details;
			echo $row['FNAME'].' '.$row['SFNAME'];
			echo $block->divclose.$block->divclose;
		}
	}

while this looks simplistic, it will be easier when I drastically increase the ammount of html that I will surround my db values with.