Along the same lines but using the modulus operator...
$counter=0;
echo '<table>';
foreach ($foundSet['data'] as $key=>$foundData){
if ( $counter % 3 == 0 ) echo '<tr>';
echo '<td width="33%"> Your stuff here</td>';
if ($counter % 3 == 2) echo '</tr>';
$counter++;
}
echo '</table>';
On 20-Jul-06, at 10:12 AM, Bob Patin wrote:
> While I've not done it, I know how I would go about this:
>
> $counter = 4;
> foreach($foundSet['data'] as $key=>$foundData){
> if ($counter = 4){
> $counter = 0;
> ?>
> <?php
> <tr> //create a new table row
> ?>
> <?php
> }
> if ($counter < 4){
> ?>
> <td width=33%>... create your new column, specify column width
> here as well (I assume it'd be 33%)
> $counter = $counter + 1;
> <?php
> }
> }
> ?>
>
> This might need tweaking; I just dashed this off, but I think this
> would work fine...
>
> Let me know how it goes...
>
> Bob Patin
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> So essentially you'd have a loop within a loop; the main loop is
> looping through the found set. The internal loop creates columns (3
> at the max for your example), then exits the loop to start a new row.
>
>
>
> On Jul 20, 2006, at 11:56 AM, David Tinoco wrote:
>
>> I guess this is more a php question, but does anyone know how to
>> write a piece of code that could write the html for the foundcount
>> of a query from the database in columns, as well as rows?
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> Category1 Category2 Category3
>> Category4 Category5 Category6
>>
>> Instead of:
>>
>> Category1
>> Category2
>> Category3
>> Category4....and so on.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> David
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