Sort when querying from database:

SELECT name, type FROM some_table ORDER BY type ASC, name ASC


----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 5:38 AM
Subject: [PHP] sorting mysql results



I have a list of rows in the database and i would like to sort them in two
categories.
example,

echo $row['name'] . '-' . $row['type'];

// output:

row 1 - files

row 2 - files

row 3 - music

row 4 - files

I would like this output:

files
----------
row 1 - files
row 2 - files
row 4 - files

music
-----------
row 3 - music

if the $row['type'] is music i want to output an <hr> and the results below
it but below the files results.. makes sense?
i thought i remember doing this once using a dummy var but cant remember
how. i guess i could always run a second query, but would like to avoid
that.


thanks for any help.

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