Query Help

I have four fields, "name", "date", "task", and "title" - and am
trying to PHP code where if I click 'All', all rows for 'Bob' followed
by all rows in a MySQL datebase for 'Jim' and then all rows for 'Joe'
would be displayed alphabetically (by name), with all of Bob's rows
grouped together and then all of Jim's and then all of Joe's, etc
(versus the way they may reside in the MySQL table).

My query works well for individual names and also for 'All' but it
would look and be easier to read if I could group the rows by name and
maybe list alphabetically. My 'All' code portion currently looks like
this:

$query =
"SELECT *
FROM $table
WHERE 1 = 1 ";
if($name != "All") $query .= "and name = '".$name."'";

$result = mysql_query($query);


thanks for any help...
John