Posted by Eddie Biscomb on 09/27/05 04:39

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

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