Displaying results from mysql database in a html/php table - php

Question

Hi I've got a page where I can view data output from a mysql database. It works good. But it's not stylish. So I decided to put in a html <table> tag. However it's not displaying the data.
I've tried putting in
<td> </td> etc between rows but it stops the code being parsed.
<?php
$servername = "******";
$username = "root";
$password = "********";
$dbname = "test2";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
$sql = "SELECT first_name, last_name, email FROM person_list";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
//display table
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>";
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo
"<br> ". $row["first_name"]. " "
. $row["last_name"] ." "
. $row["email"] ." " ;
}
}
else {
echo "0 results";
}
echo "</table>";
$conn->close();
?>

Answer 1

Try this one, if it works for you..
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>";
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>". $row["first_name"] . "</td>";
echo "<td>". $row["last_name"] . "</td>";
echo "<td>". $row["email"] . "</td> " ;
echo "</tr>";
}
}
echo "</table>";

Answer 2

You might also be intrested in the foreach way.
Foreach would be quicker in larger data sets, but this is very similar to Narendrasingh Sisodia answer.
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>";
if($result->num_rows > 0){
foreach($result as $row){
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>". $row["first_name"] . "</td>";
echo "<td>". $row["last_name"] . "</td>";
echo "<td>". $row["email"] . "</td> " ;
echo "</tr>";
}
}
echo "</table>";