i can't edit so i'll add one more entry for a second. i want everyone to know where i am because i know someone out there somewhere might want something very similar to this.

currentlyi'm having trouble with getting it to get all the product names from the that one manufacturer. currently i can either print all the products again under each manufacturer or just print the first item of thiers.

here is the code so far. i'm a little sick and dizzy so that might be a reason i'm not getting it quite done but that's never an excuse. here's the code:

for ($i = 0; $i < $listing_split->number_of_rows; $i++)
{
if ($list_box_contents[$i][1]['text'] == $list_box_contents[$i+1][1]['text'])
continue;
else
{
echo '<b>'.$list_box_contents[$i][1]['text']."</b><br>..... ";
//for ($j = 0; $j < $listing_split->number_of_rows; $j++)
echo $list_box_contents[$i][2]['text'].' <BR> ';
}
//for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($list_box_contents); $i++)
/*print_r(($i).': '.(string)$list_box_contents[$i][1]['text'].' - ');
print_r((string)$list_box_contents[$i][0]['text'].' - ');
print_r((string)$list_box_contents[$i][2]['text'].'<BR>');*/
}