Alphabetical Anchor Tags

[dtyson2000]

Afternoon!

 

This is probably something very straightforward but I haven't been able to locate a resource. I have a list of names and would like to provide a set of links (alphabet at the top of the list) to the first instance of a last name starting with that letter. The (a href='#s') jumping to (a name='s') isn't the issue. Grabbing the names from the database and dynamically grabbing the first instance of a last name that starts with the next letter and inserting the 'a name=' tag is.

 

Is there a resource for this anywhere that you can point me to?

 

Thanks, ahead of time!

[Jessica]

Have you written any code?

[dtyson2000]

Aside from the basic query and output, no I haven't started because I'm not sure how to go about analyzing each result (well I guess I can figure that part out) and then limit the action needed (the insertion of a string of html) to just the first instance of the letter A, then B, etc.

 

Sorry this may sound vague.

[dtyson2000]

Wow that wasn't bad. I actually just used the $string[0] to get the first letter of the last name and wrapped it in (a name='$string[0]') then stuck the links at the top of the list as hrefs. All fixed. Much Ado about Nothing! ;-)