PHP IF inside <tr> <td> loop while looping results from MySQL database - php

Question

I would need to display results in 3 rows and have same values under each other. Currently results are all going under each other. My code would have 3 IF sentences inside the loop.
My code is here:
echo "
<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\" class=\"data\">
<tr>
<td class=\"dataHeader\"><h2>Vapaa</h2></td>
<td class=\"dataHeader\"><h2>Varattu</h2></td>
<td class=\"dataHeader\"><h2>Käyttö estetty</h2></td>
</tr>
";
while($result = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
echo "<tr>
if ($result[tila] == 'vapaa') {
<td>" . $result['id'] . " " . $result['tila']. "</td>
}
</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";

Answer 1

I think you don't want the if to be as text. So you have to do like this:
while($result = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
echo "<tr> ";
//First if
if ($result[tila] == 'vapaa') {
echo "<td>" . $result['id'] . " " . $result['tila']. "</td>";
} else {
echo '<td></td>';
}
//Second if
if ($result[tila] == 'varattu') {
echo '<td>' , $result['id'] , ' ' , $result['tila']. '</td>';
} else {
echo '<td></td>';
}
// Here you can add more ifs.
echo "</tr>";
}
Because tables need to have the same number of cells (<td>) in a you need to add empty <td>s as describe above.

Answer 2

Wrong use of string quote delimiters.
echo '<table>';
while($result = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
echo '<tr>';
if ($result[tila] == 'vapaa') {
echo '<td>' , $result['id'] , ' ' , $result['tila']. '</td>';
}
echo '</tr>';
}
echo '</table>';