How to : Table with PHP?

[HollyVally]

Hi All,

I need to create HTML table on the fly. Although I have done in a hard way(encoding the table as strings & putting couple of loops around the different parts of it!), is there any built in way of doing it in PHP? Like including some specific module or something?

Cheers all.

 

[1510982]

Actually it isn't. What you could do is to multiply include the parts that are repeating.

 

[DRJ478]

Search the script archives.
There are some classes that do things like you want to do.
PHP itself has no functions to create HTML output.

Look into templates if you want to separate HTML and PHP. It's worthwhile in the long run.

 

[HollyVally]

Thanks everyone!

 

[KarveR]

I use a function for database tables, as they are always different number of columns or rows.

once you've done you query call
DrawResult($result);


add this somewhere:
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
function DrawResult($my_result){

$columns=@mysql_num_fields($my_result);

// figure out how many columns are in it and do the table to fit.


echo &quot;<table align=\&quot;center\&quot; border=\&quot;0\&quot; cellspacing=\&quot;1\&quot; cellpadding=\&quot;0\&quot; width=\&quot;98%\&quot;>\n&quot;;

$row=0;

// display field names

// print &quot;<th>row</th>&quot;;

// for ($i = 0; $i < mysql_num_fields($my_result); $i++) {

// print &quot;<th>&quot;.mysql_field_name($my_result,$i).&quot;</th>\n&quot;;

// }

while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($my_result)){

// start the results display table

$row++;

if($row%2){

$color=&quot;#ECECEC&quot;;

}else{

$color=&quot;#D1DEFD&quot;;

}

echo &quot;<tr><td width=20>$row</td>&quot;;

for ($i = 0; $i < ($columns); $i++) {

echo &quot;<td bgcolor=\&quot;$color\&quot;> $myrow[$i] </td>\n&quot;;

}

echo &quot;</tr>\n&quot;;

}


mysql_free_result($my_result);

echo &quot;</table>\n&quot;;
}

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