How to create two columns PHP? - php

Question

I am having the worst time trying to create this, it should be simple. I have an $info array that consists of $person=>$personInfoArray and I am trying to say, for the first six, do one column, for the next x amount, do another column.
What I have is:
$infoCounter = 0;
foreach($info as $person => $information){
$infoCounter++;
echo '<tr>';
if($infoCounter <= 5){
echo '<td>'.$person.'</td>';
echo '<td>'.$information['Extension'].'</td>';
}elseif($infoCounter > 5){
echo '<td>'.$person.'</td>';
echo '<td>'.$information['Extension'].'</td>';
}
echo '</tr>';
}
I am essentially trying to create a table that looks like:
Name Extension Name Extension
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Some one 54545 Name 9785
Some One else 54212 Something else 44121
But I am getting:
Name Extension Name Extension
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Some one 54545
Name 9785
Some One else 54212
Something else 44121
Thoughts? This should be ridiculously easy.

Answer 1

See that you are creating a <tr> for each person, try doing something like this:
$infoCounter = 0;
foreach($info as $person => $information){
if ($infoCounter % 2 == 0) {
echo '<tr>';
}
echo '<td>'.$person.'</td>';
echo '<td>'.$information['Extension'].'</td>';
if ($infoCounter % 2 == 0) {
echo '</tr>';
}
$infoCounter++;
}
Check that % its the modulus

Answer 2

You will always have "2" columns with this code. I think what you are after is this.
$counter = 0;
foreach($info as $person => $information){
if($counter == 0) echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>$person</td>";
echo "<td>$information</td>";
$counter += 2;
if($counter == 4) {
$counter = 0;
echo "</tr>";
}
}
Keep in mind this is crude and off the top of my head. Not sure why you want 4 columns for 2 column information, other than formatting.