how to make html table rows equal in php - php

Question

data is from my database they are not same value of data. and my html display are not good to view, is there any way to create empty td?
<?php while($team= mysqli_fetch_assoc($team_set)){ ?>
<td><?php echo htmlentities($team['tname']); ?></td>
<?php while($grade = mysqli_fetch_assoc($grade_set)){ ?>
<td><?php echo htmlentities($grade['points']); ?></td>
<?php } mysqli_free_result($grade_set); ?>
<td><?php echo htmlentities($team['sum']); ?></td>
<?php } mysqli_free_result($team_set); ?>

Answer 1

I would reorganize the structure of the middle part, i.e. this part of your code:
<?php while($grade = mysqli_fetch_assoc($grade_set)){ ?>
<td><?php echo htmlentities($grade['points']); ?></td>
<?php } mysqli_free_result($grade_set); ?>
Here every entry is put into its own table cell, creating what you describe in your question (different amount of cells in each row). I would instead put all these entries into one cell:
<td class="points_cell">
<?php while($grade = mysqli_fetch_assoc($grade_set)){ ?>
<span class="points"><?php echo htmlentities($grade['points']); ?></span>
<?php } mysqli_free_result($grade_set); ?>
</td>
As you can see, I wrapped the single entries into span tags with a class (.points) and created and applied the class .points_cell to the cell that wraps them. For these two classes you can create CSS rules similar to this:
.points_cell {
white-space: nowrap;
}
.points {
display: inline-block;
padding: 0 10px;
}
white-space: nowrap; on .points_cell makes sure the .points spans are not put below each other, but in one line. The side padding in .points creates sufficient distance between the entries - this value can of course be adjusted as needed.
You could also create CSS borders (left and right) or alternating background colors for those span elements if you want to set them apart in a more obvious way.

Answer 2

To output table cells using only PHP, you'd need to pre-loop your arrays, find the max in any row, then loop again that many times when you actually display.
Here I'm ls using a temporary array to hold the results so you don't need to call the database twice. I made some assumptions about your SQL result set, so you may need to modify it slightly.
<?php
// Call database, pre-looping result set
$max = 1;
$table_arr = array();
while( $team = mysqli_fetch_assoc($team_set) ){
$tmp = array();
while( $grade = mysqli_fetch_assoc($grade_set) ){
$tmp[] = $grade['points'];
}
mysqli_free_result($grade_set);
// Store results for later use
$table_arr[] = array(
'tname' => $team['tname'],
'sum' => $team['sum '],
'points' => $tmp,
);
// Get max cells in any result set
$max = max( $max, count($tmp) );
}
mysqli_free_result($team_set);
?>
<?php
// Loop $table_array to actually output things
foreach ($table_array as $team) {
?>
<td><?php echo htmlentities($team['tname']); ?></td>
<?php
// loop $max times, output points if present else empty cell
for ($x = 0; $x < $max; $x++) {
$points = isset( $team['points'][ $x ] ) ? $team['points'][ $x ] : ' ';
?>
<td><?php echo htmlentities($points); ?></td>
<?php } ?>
<td><?php echo htmlentities($team['sum']); ?></td>
<?php } ?>