Display data from SQL query in an HTML table in PHP - php

Question

I retrieved a list of data from an SQL database and now I would like to display it in a neat table rather than in a list. I managed to find a way to do this (probably not very elegant, though), but the column headers seem to be offset and I have not idea how to fix this.
I'm completely new to PHP, so any hints on how to solve this will be much appreciated!
echo '<table>';
echo '<tr>';
echo '<th>';
echo '<td>Word</td>';
echo '<td>Frequency</td>';
echo '</th>';
echo '</tr>';
$response = $db->query("SELECT * FROM frequencies WHERE freq BETWEEN 900 AND 910 ORDER BY freq");
while ($row = $response->fetch())
{
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>'.$row['word'].'</td>';
echo '<td>'.$row['freq'].'</td>';
echo '</tr>';
}
echo '</table>';
$response->closeCursor();

Answer 1

A <th> element is a table header element and should be used instead of <td> (table data) element in your header row - it should never be a wrapper around <td> elements.
echo '<table>';
echo '<tr>';
echo '<th>Word</th>';
echo '<th>Frequency</th>';
echo '</tr>';

Answer 2

I prefer combining php and html
<table >
<thead>
<tr>
<th >Word</th>
<th >Frequency</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<?php
$response = $db->query("SELECT * FROM frequencies WHERE freq
BETWEEN 900 AND 910 ORDER BY freq");
?>
<tbody>
<?php
while ( $row = $response->fetch()) {
?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $row['word']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['freq']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php }
$response->closeCursor();
?>
</tbody>
</table>