I'm a newbie (less than a week of php) and I'm curious about how results can lay out. Is it possible to have the results layed out in 4 columns?
Usual
RECORD 1 GOES HERE
RECORD 2 GOES HERE
RECORD 3 GOES HERE
I need
RECORD 1 RECORD 2 RECORD 3 RECORD 4
RECORD 5 RECORD 6 ETC.
If this is possible, please don't forget that I'm REALLY new at this. :)
THANKS!!!
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I'm a newbie (less than a week of php) and I'm curious about how results can lay out. Is it possible to have the results layed out in 4 columns?
Usual
RECORD 1 GOES HERE
RECORD 2 GOES HERE
RECORD 3 GOES HERE
I need
RECORD 1 RECORD 2 RECORD 3 RECORD 4
RECORD 5 RECORD 6 ETC.
If this is possible, please don't forget that I'm REALLY new at this. :)
THANKS!!!
The answer is yes. It is possible. I am also a noob so hopefully someone might have a better/cleaner solution than I do. The only reason I am replying is because I *just* managed to accomplish the same effect that you are describing. How I did it may not be the best way available but my knowledge is limited so I work with what I have.
Here's what I did
I started off with setting up my query and getting the results and the numrows
then..when it came to echoing the results
I declared two variables: the standard $i and $columncountSTO RE YOUR CODE BETWEEN code or PHP TAGS!!!!! -
$i = 0;
-
$columncount = 0:
-
-
//I started my table
-
echo "<table><tr>";
-
-
//I created a while loop for the recordsets
-
-
while ($i < $num) {
-
$field=mysql_result($result,$i,"field");
-
-
echo "<td>".$field."</td>";
-
-
//inside the loop, I check the column counter to see if I reached the 3rd column
-
-
if ($columncount = 2) {
-
//close that row and open a new one
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echo "</tr><tr>";
-
}
-
//increment my counts by 1
-
$i++;
-
$columncount++;
-
}
-
//then close my table
-
echo "</tr></table>";
-
STORE YOUR CODE BETWEEN code or PHP TAGS!!!!!
Like I said before, there may be better ways to do this so keep looking for an answer, this just happened to be the only one I could think of under my time constraints with my knowledge
Hope it helps.
See my reply to this forum's thread http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread545705.html
and the code posted there is:
[PHP] echo "<table">;
$i = 0;
while ($rec = mysql_fetch_ass oc(....)) {
$i++;
switch $i {
case 1 : echo "<tr><td>" . $rec[$i] . "</td>";
break;
case 2 : echo "<td>" . $rec[$i] . "</td>";
break;
case 3 : echo "<td>" . $rec[$i] . "</td></tr>";
$i=0;
break;
}
}
if ($i < 3)
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
[/PHP]
Ronald :cool:
Being a novice maybe I'm screwing this up but neither one work.
echo "<table>";
$i = 0;
while ($rec = mysql_fetch_ass oc($result)) {
$i++;
// THE NEXT LINE IS LINE 27
switch $i {
case 1 : echo "<tr><td>" . $rec[$i] . "</td>";
break;
case 2 : echo "<td>" . $rec[$i] . "</td>";
break;
case 3 : echo "<td>" . $rec[$i] . "</td></tr>";
$i=0;
break;
}
}
if ($i < 3)
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
}
?>
Gives me this error
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting '(' in /home/dir/public_html/phundays/testphp/column_test.php on line 27
As for the other code
$i = 0; // THE NEXT LINE IS LINE 19
$columncount = 0:
//I started my table
echo "<table><tr >";
//I created a while loop for the recordsets
while ($i < $num) {
$field=mysql_re sult($result,$i ,"carid");
echo "<td>".$field." </td>";
//inside the loop, I check the column counter to see if I reached the 3rd column
if ($columncount = 4) {
//close that row and open a new one
echo "</tr><tr>";
}
//increment my counts by 1
$i++;
$columncount++;
}
//then close my table
echo "</tr></table>";
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in /home/dir/public_html/phundays/testphp/columns_nov.php on line 19
:(
You indeed are screwing it up. The code I sent you worked, but why did you add the right brace at the end?? [php]
if ($i < 3)
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
}
[/php]
Why don't you show us all the code you have used to test this solution (the one I showed here).
Ronald :cool:
Here's the code. Less my db info
<html>
<head>
<title>Column Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$db_host = "localhost" ;
$db_user = "XXXXXX";
$db_pwd = "YYYYYY";
$db_name = "ZZZZZZZ";
mysql_connect($ db_host, $db_user, $db_pwd);
mysql_select_db ($db_name);
echo "<table>";
$i = 0;
while ($rec = mysql_fetch_ass oc(....)) {
$i++;
switch $i {
case 1 : echo "<tr><td>" . $rec[$i] . "</td>";
break;
case 2 : echo "<td>" . $rec[$i] . "</td>";
break;
case 3 : echo "<td>" . $rec[$i] . "</td></tr>";
$i=0;
break;
}
}
if ($i < 3)
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
?>
</body>
</html>
Here's the error
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting ')' in /home/phelanfi/public_html/phundays/testphp/text3.php on line 20
This is line 20
while ($rec = mysql_fetch_ass oc(....)) {
I did fix the html tag from
echo "<table">;
to
echo "<table>";
Were you testing me?? LOL
Anyway, I appreciate the help!!!!
If I replace the (....) with my db's name (cars)
I then get
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting '(' in /home/phelanfi/public_html/phundays/testphp/text3.php on line 24
Line 24 is
switch $i {
Thanks
But where is your database query statement (mysql_query) executed? It is not in your code! It will never work without it!
Ronald :cool:
I tried it with this
mysql_connect($ db_host, $db_user, $db_pwd);
mysql_select_db ($db_name);
$query="SELECT * FROM cars";
$result=mysql_q uery($query);
Same results
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting '(' in /home/phelanfi/public_html/phundays/testphp/text3.php on line 26
Line 26
switch $i {
As I said, I've only been playing with PHP for about a week.
THANK YOU!!
My mistake, switch operand should be within parentheses. Anyway, the following code is tested by me and it works. Notice that I have included as comments at the beginning the way I set up the table 'cars'. Here is the working sample (don't forget to fill in your db data):
[php]<?php
/*
create table cars (id int primary key, field varchar(20));
insert into cars values(1, "type 1");
insert into cars values(2, "line 2");
insert into cars values(3, "row 3");
insert into cars values(4, "row 4");
insert into cars values(5, "and 5");
insert into cars values(6, "line 6");
insert into cars values(7, "last 7");
*/
$db_host = "localhost" ;
$db_user = "xxxxxx";
$db_pwd = "yyyyy";
$db_name = "zzzzz";
mysql_connect($ db_host, $db_user, $db_pwd);
mysql_select_db ($db_name);
$query="SELECT * FROM cars";
$result=mysql_q uery($query);
echo "<table>";
$i = 0;
while ($rec = mysql_fetch_ass oc($result)) {
$value = $rec['field'];
$i++;
switch ($i) {
case 1 : echo "<tr><td>$value </td>";
break;
case 2 : echo "<td>$value </td>";
break;
case 3 : echo "<td>$value </td></tr>";
$i=0;
break;
} // End switch
} // End while
if ($i < 3)
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
?>[/php]
Good luck! Ronald :cool:
BINGO!!
THANK YOU!!!
One more question. Can I have one field in one row and another in the next?
IMAGE 1 | IMAGE 2 | IMAGE 3
DESCRIPTION 1 | DESCRIPTION 2 | DESCRIPTION 3
IMAGE 4 | IMAGE 5 | IMAGE 6
DESCRIPTION 4 | DESCRIPTION 5 | DESCRIPTION 6
I can play with it but I thought I'd ask just to save some frustration in case it's not possible.
Thanks
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