hello guys, I am new to php and only took it up recently when I decided to start my own website
I am using joomla cms to administer the website and I have this software that lists sports games, which are group according to category
at the moment all game appear as one big list, what I want to do is add a break between each category, here is a part of the code
[php]
<?php for ($i=0,$k=0,$n=count($this->items); $i<$n; $i++,$k=1-$k): ?> <tr class="<?php echo "row$k"; ?>">
<td class="secenter"><?php echo $this->items[$i]->cat_name, '<br />', $this->items[$i]->date; ?></td>
<td width="30px" align="left">
<img height="13px" width="19px" src="<?php echo JURI::root(TRUE).'/components/com_sportspredictions/images/'.$this->items[$i]->t1_flag;?>" />
</td>
<td class="secenter" width="1%" nowrap="nowrap"><?php
echo empty($this->items[$i]->descr) ?
$this->items[$i]->t1_name.' - '.$this->items[$i]->t2_name :
'<a href="'.JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_sportspredictions&view=match&id_mat='.$this->items[$i]->id_mat).'">'.$this->items[$i]->t1_name.' - '.$this->items[$i]->t2_name.'</a>';
?></td>
<td width="30px" align="right">
<img height="13px" width="19px" src="<?php echo JURI::root(TRUE).'/components/com_sportspredictions/images/'.$this->items[$i]->t2_flag;?>" />
</td>
<td class="secenter" nowrap="nowrap">
<input type="text" name="predictions[<?php echo $this->items[$i]->id_mat; ?>][1]" style="width:20px" maxlength="2" value="<?php echo $this->items[$i]->prev_equipe1; ?>" />
:
<input type="text" name="predictions[<?php echo $this->items[$i]->id_mat; ?>][2]" style="width:20px" maxlength="2" value="<?php echo $this->items[$i]->prev_equipe2; ?>" />
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>[/php]
the $item is a single game and the cat_name is the category name, every item/game belongs to a category
I am assuming that cat_name is a variable
is there a piece of code I can add that will add a break at the end of this code every time the cat_name variable changes?