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Title : Output database records in multiple table columns. multiple, table, columns, output, format, query output, html table, php
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Christopher Chaduka
Date : Jul 13th 2000
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Say you have the following database table:

database name: db_business
table name: tbl_clients

---------------------------------------------------
|client_name|client_age|client_city |client_salary|
---------------------------------------------------
|Bob | 42|Dubai | 12000|
---------------------------------------------------
|Pinky | 18|Harare | 6000|
---------------------------------------------------
|Susan | 23|Cape Town | 57000|
---------------------------------------------------
|Brain | 102|Earth | 0|
---------------------------------------------------


The following illustrates how to output the results in the following HTML table:

----------------------
|Bob |Pinky |
|42 |18 |
|Dubai |Harare |
|12000 |6000 |
----------------------
|Susan |Brain |
|23 |102 |
|Cape Town |Earth |
|57000 |0 |
----------------------


<?php

mysql_connect("localhost","your_username","your_password");

$sql_client_details = "SELECT * FROM tbl_clients";
$sql_client_details_result = mysql_db_query("your_database",$sql_client_details);

// desired columns in a table
$num_cols = 2;

// dummy variable to hold our loop count
$while_count = 1;

// number of items we need to output. this number is determined by the number of
// records returned by our query
$num_records = mysql_num_rows($sql_client_details_result);

// start a new table row
$new_row = 1;

// count the number of <td>s we have so far in this row
$td_count = 0;

// I want to use colspan for the last row if it's incomplete.
// Set this to any other value other than 1 if you do not want to span --UGLY--
$want_to_colspan = 1;

// the total number of table rows we will end up having
$num_rows = ceil($num_records / $num_cols);

// number of rows we have so far
$row_number = 0;

print "<table border=\"1\">\n";

while ($client_details_array = mysql_fetch_array($sql_client_details_result)) {
$client_name = $client_details_array["client_name"];
$client_age = $client_details_array["client_age"];
$client_city = $client_details_array["client_city"];
$client_salary = $client_details_array["client_salary"];

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                 $new_row = 0; // don't start a new table row
                 $row_number++;
         }
        
         if (($want_to_colspan == 1) && ($row_number == $num_rows) && ($while_count
== $num_records)) {
                 // we want to colspan the remaining table columns
                 $num_cols_to_span = $num_cols - $td_count;
                
                 print "<td colspan=\"$num_cols_to_span\">\n";
                 print "$client_name<br>\n";
                 print "$client_age<br>\n";
                 print "$client_city<br>\n";
                 print "$client_salary\n";
                 print "</td>\n";
                 $td_count++; // not necessary as this is the last row anyway
         } else {
                 // just print
                 print "<td>\n";
                 print "$client_name<br>\n";
                 print "$client_age<br>\n";
                 print "$client_city<br>\n";
                 print "$client_salary\n";
                 print "</td>\n";
                 $td_count++;
         }
        
         if ($td_count == $num_cols) {
                 // close the table row since we have the required columns in one table
row
                 print "</tr>\n";
                 $new_row = 1; // we need to start a new row
                 $td_count = 0;
         }
        
         $while_count++;
}

// HTML compliance and for Netscape && similar browsers' sake!!

if (($num_records % $num_cols) != 0) {
         print "</tr>\n";
}

print "</table>\n";

mysql_free_result($sql_client_details_result);

?>

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