How to automatically generate rowspan using php - php

Question

In this code everything is perfect except that I could not generate rowspan in the Internal Grade cell. this line <td rowspan="<?php echo $cols;?>"> hides the bottom border while I expect to span the rows every time the code generates rows. Thanks for your input and sorry for using mysql() function. I am newbie.
<?php $cols=mysql_num_rows($grds); ?>
<table>
<?php do{ ?>
<tr>
<td> </td>
//This hide the bottom border
<td rowspan="<?php echo $cols;?>">Internal<br />Grades</td>
<td colspan="2"> <?php echo strtoupper($row_grds['grade_name']); ?></td>
<td><?php echo strtoupper($row_grds['igrade']); ?></td>
<?php } while ($row_grds=mysql_fetch_assoc($grds)); ?>
</tr>
</table>
The output is like below:
output is here
The code generated by php is:
<table>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td rowspan="1"> </td>// A
<td colspan="2"> RHYMES</td>
<td align="center">B</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td rowspan="2"> </td>//B
<td colspan="2"> CONVERSATION</td>
<td align="center">A</td>
</tr>
</table>
I want to merge A and B
Expected output is:
<table>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td rowspan="2"> Internal<br /> Grade</td>
<td colspan="2"> RHYMES</td>
<td align="center">B</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2"> CONVERSATION</td>
<td align="center">A</td>
</tr>
</table>

Answer 1

You can do something similar to this:
<table>
<?php $row_grds = mysql_fetch_assoc($grds); ?>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td rowspan="<?=$cols;?>">Internal<br />Grades</td>
<td colspan="2"> <?=strtoupper($row_grds['grade_name']);?></td>
<td><?=strtoupper($row_grds['igrade']);?></td>
</tr>
<?php while ($row_grds=mysql_fetch_assoc($grds)): ?>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2"> <?=strtoupper($row_grds['grade_name']);?></td>
<td><?=strtoupper($row_grds['igrade']);?></td>
</tr>
<?php endwhile; ?>
Its not perfect but you are using mysql_fetch_assoc, which on its own is not perfect either :D