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Posted by Justin Koivisto on 09/27/05 06:02
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
Set $numRows to how many records you have retrieved total...
for($i=0;$i<$numRows;$i=$i+5){
echo '<tr>';
for($j=$i;$j<($i+5);$j++){
$line1='record'.$j.'Line1';
$line2='record'.$j.'Line2';
$checkbox='record'.$j.'checkbox';
echo '<td>',${$line1},'<br>',${$line2},'<br>',
${$checkbox},'</td>';
}
echo '</tr>',"\n";
}
Try it - maybe I'm just too tired, but it looks ok from here (not tested
of course)... That is assuming that you actually have the variable names
set up as you had indicated in that block of HTML...
I would be more inclined to have the SQL return 3 columns per row so I
could just use something like: $row[0], $row[1], $row[2] for the
variables...
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Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.com
http://koivi.com
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