[sabret00the]

the table will go
groups_browse_cathead

			<tableclass="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="1"border="0" width="100%" align="center">
				<tr>
					<tdclass="tcat"> <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top"onclick="returntoggle_collapse('groups_$grps_categoryinfo[catid]')"><imgid="collapseimg_groups_$grps_categoryinfo[catid]"src="$vboptions[bburl]/$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_groups_newest].gif"alt="" border="0" /></a> 
						$grps_categoryinfo[catname]
					</td>
				</tr>
			<tbodyid="collapseobj_groups_$grps_categoryinfo[catid]"style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_groups_newest]">
				<tr>
					<tdclass="alt1" style="padding: 0px">
						<tablecellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]"cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0"width="$stylevar[tablewidth]">

groups_browse_catbit

<if condition="exec_switch_bg() && $bg = $bgclass. '_bgcolor'"></if>
<tr bgcolor="$stylevar[$bg]">
	<td>
		<b><ahref="groups.php?$session[sessionurl]g=$grps_categoryinfo[groupid]">$grps_categoryinfo[title]</a></b><br/>
 <span class="smallfont">$grps_categoryinfo[description]<br /></span>
	</td>
</tr>

groups_browse_catfoot

						</table>
					</td>
				</tr>
			</tbody>
			<tr>
				<tdclass="thead"><imgsrc="$vboptions[bburl]/$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/clear.gif" alt=""width="1" height="1" /></td>
			</tr>
			</table>
<br />

44488 is

PHP Code:

$grps_catergoryinfo[catid]<br /> 


echoing out all the records from the database

apart from that this might help

what i'm trying to acheive is

table start for catid = 1
record 1 where cat id = 1
record 2 where cat id = 1
record 3 where cat id = 1
record 4 where cat id = 1
table end for catid = 1

table start for catid = 2
record 1 where cat id = 2
record 2 where cat id = 2
record 3 where cat id = 2
record 4 where cat id = 2
table end for catid = 2

if any of that makes sense?