I want to arrange database elements into tabular form - php

Question

I create table like this:
id | a1 | a2 | a3 | a | a4 | a5 | a6
1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 63 | 3 | 5 | 0
2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 35 | 3 | 5 | 0
3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 40 | 3 | 5 | 0
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00 | 0 | 0 | 0
5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 44 | 2 | 2 | 2
6 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 07 | 5 | 5 | 7
7 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 07 | 5 | 5 | 7
8 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 64 | 2 | 5 | 7
9 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 84 | 1 | 3 | 0
10 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 74 | 1 | 3 | 0
11 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 96 | 1 | 2 | 3
I want to show this data on my relevant page. The format for the page should be like this:
<table>
<tr>
<th> a1 </br> a2 </br> a3</th>
<th> a </th>
<th> a4 </br> a5 </br> a6 </th>
.
.
.
.
</tr>
</table>
and after 7 columns from database or we can say after id divisible by 7, it should add </tr><tr> tag
Currently I am using:
<table width="40%" border="1" align="center" bordercolor="#000000" bgcolor="#99CC99">
<?php
$x=mysql_connect("localhost","dbuser","password");
if(!$x)
{
die("not connected");
}
mysql_select_db("mydb");
$q=mysql_query("select * from table");
while($r=mysql_fetch_array($q))
{?>
<td> <?php echo $r["a1"];?></br>
<?php echo $r["a2"];?></br>
<?php echo $r["a3"];?></td>
<td><?php echo $r["a"];?></td>
<td><?php echo $r["a4"];?></br>
<?php echo $r["a5"];?></br>
<?php echo $r["a6"];?></td>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
but it does not break row after 7 columns element

Answer 1

I think you are trying this
<table width="40%" border="1" align="center" bordercolor="#000000" bgcolor="#99CC99"><tr>
<?php
$inr=0;
$x=mysql_connect("localhost","dbuser","password");
if(!$x)
{
die("not connected");
}
mysql_select_db("mydb");
$q=mysql_query("select * from table");
while($r=mysql_fetch_array($q))
{?>
<td> <?php echo $r["a1"];?></br>
<?php echo $r["a2"];?></br>
<?php echo $r["a3"];?></td>
<td><?php echo $r["a"];?></td>
<td><?php echo $r["a4"];?></br>
<?php echo $r["a5"];?></br>
<?php echo $r["a6"];?></td>
<?php
$inr++;
if($inr%7==0)
echo"</tr><tr>";
}
?>
</tr></table>

Answer 2

$x=mysql_connect("localhost","dbuser","password");
if(!$x)
{
die("not connected");
}
mysql_select_db("mydb");
$q=mysql_query("select * from table");
$markup = '<table width="40%" border="1" align="center" while($r=mysql_fetch_array($q)) {
$headersPrinted = false;
bordercolor="#000000" bgcolor="#99CC99"><tr>
';
while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($q)) {
if (!$headersPrinted) {
foreach ($q as $key => $value) {
$markup .= "<th>$key</th>";
}
$markup .= "<tr>$markup</tr>";
$headersPrinted = true;
}
$markup .= '<tr>';
foreach ($q as $key => $value) {
$markup .= "<td>$value</td>";
}
$markup = $markup. '</tr>';
}
$markup .= '</table>';
echo $markup;
You should abort the printing of any HTML code before checking if you got a db connection.