PHP SQL Query - unable to add HTML formatting - php

Question

I have a database with three tables. A, B and C. Table A has one column: entity_id. Table B has two columns; entity_id, entity_name. Table C has two columns; entity_id, entity_body.
I am trying to use php to create an html table that displays entity_name and entity_body for all entity_id that appear in Table A.
$sql1 = $dbh->prepare('Select B.entity_name, C.entity_body FROM A
INNER JOIN B ON A.entity_id = B.entity_id
INNER JOIN C on A.entity_id = C.entity_id');
$sql1->execute();
while ($row = $sql1->fetchObject()) {
echo '<br><tr><td>';
echo $row->body_value;
echo '</td><td>';
echo $row->title;
echo '</td></tr>';
}
The above query is returning the correct database records: it shows all the relevant rows separated by a line-break.
However, the and HTML tags never seem to be added. The tags are added. All other tags are recognised and work as expected (e.g. p, div etc.).
Is it possible to format the outputs of a query as a table with HTML tags around the cells and the rows?
Apologies if this is obvious - this is my first attempt at using php with a database. Many thanks,
Ben

Answer 1

try
$sql1 = $dbh->prepare('Select B.entity_name, C.entity_body FROM A
INNER JOIN B ON A.entity_id = B.entity_id
INNER JOIN C on A.entity_id = C.entity_id');
$sql1->execute();
echo '<table width="100%">';
while ($row = $sql1->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ)) {
echo '<tr>
<td>';
echo $row->entity_body;
echo ' </td>
<td>';
echo $row->entity_name;
echo '</td>
</tr>';
}
echo '</table>';

Answer 2

Looks like you are missing table tag before ''
//add table tag here.
echo '<table>'; //you can set table style using css as well
while ($row = $sql1->fetchObject()) {
echo '<tr><td>'; // no need to add <br> here
echo $row->body_value;
echo '</td><td>';
echo $row->title;
echo '</td></tr>';
}
//close table tag here
echo '</table>';
Hope this helps!