I'm trying to figure out the best way to present data in a grouped fashion.

I have a load of courses that are displayed on the view within a @foreach( ) statement, the results are ordered by date. I have results from now up until this December for each month has quite a few records. What I'd like to do is group the month results under a header for that month, eg.

@foreach($Records as $key => $Record)
  <?php $current = Date('mY', $Record->Date); ?>
  @if( $key == 0 )
    <?php $previous = ''; ?>
  @endif
  @if( $current != $previous )
    <p>{{ Date('mY', $Record->Date) }}</p>
  @endif
  <p>Display this record for {{ $Record->id }}</p>
  <?php $current = Date('mY', $Record->Date); ?>
@endforeach

This works, but I'm not overly joyed about having to embed php tags in the blade file and was just wondering if there was a better way to approach this. I've had a go at extending blade as per the documentation with not much success.