help with html table format

[greedyisg00d]

All my data are fetch from the database and I echo each data in table format using while loop. The html table looks like this:

| name | date_from | date_to |
+=======+===========+=========+
|....Marv......|....2010-01-03...|.2010-01-07...|
|....Marv......|....2010-01-11...|.2010-01-15...|
|....Marv......|....2010-01-23...|.2010-01-29...|

What I want is to only display the name once so that it will not be repetitive for example:

| name | date_from | date_to |
+=======+===========+=========+
|....Marv......|....2010-01-03...|.2010-01-07...|
|.................|....2010-01-11...|.2010-01-15...|
|.................|....2010-01-23...|.2010-01-29...|

Any idea on how can this be done? Sample code is much appreciated. Thanks

[Weedpacket]

As noted the other times this question has been asked in these forums: on each row, compare the value of the heading with the previous row's heading; only print the heading when it changes; store the value so that you can use it when printing the next row.