Formatting dynamically generated checkboxes? - php

Question

I've got a system that gathers information out of XML files, for the exporter I have been trying to create a system where it gathers the unique imprints from a SQL table then outputs them & uses it for the export query so we can export only what we are after at that time & not everything.
The code I have does the above fine however I've been trying to format it to sit within a table and every 7/8 iterations it starts a new table row however I've been unsuccessful at this point, with 167 rows currently I want it to look a bit better than a massive list (and easier to use).
The code I have currently is the following:
<table>
<form action="exporttrade.php" method="post">
<b>Please Select imprints you wish to Export for <client></b><br />
<?PHP
mysql_connect('server', 'user', 'password');
mysql_select_db("database");
$sql ="SELECT distinct imprint FROM table";
$results= mysql_query($sql);
while( $imprint = mysql_fetch_assoc($results) ):
?>
<tr><td><?php echo $imprint['imprint']; ?></td><td><input type="checkbox" name="imprint[]" value="<?php echo $imprint['imprint']; ?>"/></td></tr>
<?php endwhile; ?>
I've been attempting to use a counter and modulo function I've seen online to insert code every nth line (in this case will be the ending < /tr> tag. Does anyone here know how you can sucessfully do what I am after? I'm just a bit stumped at how to format this currently :/
Edit - Just a heads up managed to get this working as I wanted it to now used the following:
$imprints=grab_array($sql);
foreach ($imprints as $imprint){
$imprint=$imprint['imprint'];
$counter++;
if($counter % 8 == 0){
echo "</tr><tr>";
}
?>
<td><?php echo $imprint; ?></td><td><input type="checkbox" name="imprint[]" value="<?php echo $imprint; ?>"/></td>
<?PHP
}
?>

Answer 1

Try this code.
<table>
<form action="exporttrade.php" method="post">
<b>Please Select imprints you wish to Export for <client></b><br />
<?PHP
mysql_connect('server', 'user', 'password');
mysql_select_db("database");
$count = 0;
$sql ="SELECT distinct imprint FROM table";
$results= mysql_query($sql);
while( $imprint = mysql_fetch_assoc($results) ):
if($imprint)
{
count++;
}
while($count <= 8)
?>
<tr><td><?php echo $imprint['imprint']; ?></td><td><input type="checkbox" name="imprint[]" value="<?php echo $imprint['imprint']; ?>"/></td></tr>
<?php
$count = 0; echo '<tr><td> New Row after 8 </td> </tr>'?>
<?php continue ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
you can use this logic.