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Re: putting db results in a 5 x 1 table

Posted by Schraalhans Keukenmeester on 09/27/05 05:28

Eddie Biscomb wrote:
> I have a db of tens of thousands of entries. It's not too hard to pull
> all the entries and build a table that displays them one at a time, but
> in my case, that will be a huge waste of space. What I want to do is
> put one record in each of the columns. I thinks it's possible to do
> because I have seen very elaborate thumbnail gallery scripts to do this.
> I just want to be able to put two or three strings of text from each
> record into each row, and a checkbox. Here's sample of what I mean:
>
> <table width="76%" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
> <tr>
> <td>$record1Line1<br>$record1$Line2<br>
> <input type="checkbox" name="$record1checkbox" value="checkbox"></td>
> <td>$record2Line1<br>$record2$Line2<br>
> <input type="checkbox" name="$record2checkbox" value="checkbox"></td>
> <td>$record3Line1<br>$record3$Line2<br>
> <input type="checkbox" name="$record3checkbox" value="checkbox"></td>
> <td>$record4Line1<br>$record4$Line2<br>
> <input type="checkbox" name="$record3checkbox" value="checkbox"></td>
> <td>$record5Line1<br>$record5$Line2<br>
> <input type="checkbox" name="$record5checkbox" value="checkbox"></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> I want to pull about 200 records at a time from the db and display as
> described above. How can I tell php to take five records from my result
> set and display above, then loop through the result set until I'm done?
>
> Thanks much for any guidance you can offer.
>
> Ed
I think you are after the LIMIT clause.
Select * from db where blabla LIMIT 5
See MySQL manual for complete coverage of LIMIT usage.

SH

 

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