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I am trying to make a simple function that creates an HTML table that first gets the headers in th-tags and then dumps all the rows into html table rows.
Here's what I got so far.
function dumpMysqlTable($tblName) {
$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `$tblName`");
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
$i=0;
while($i<mysql_num_fields($result)) {
$fields=mysql_fetch_field($result, $i);
echo "<th>".$fields->name."</th>";
$i++;
}
echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
$j=0;
while($j<mysql_num_rows($result)) {
$k=0;
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "<td>".$row[$k]."</td>";
$k++;
}
$j++;
}
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
}
However, it messes up badly, and picks rows from the table its not supposed to and I just can't get it to work. Please help :)

Answer 1

You are making several mistakes.
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
will return a whole row (or line) of the table. So $row[$k] references a row (one line in the table), not a cell value.
Then you should know that mysql_fetch_array by default will return an array with both numerical keys and associative indices. So you should either use mysql_fetch_array( $result, MYSQL_NUM ) or simply mysql_fetch_row(). Then you can loop through the row:
while( $row = mysql_fetch_row( $result ) ) {
echo "<tr>";
foreach( $row as $cell )
{
echo "<td>".$cell."</td>";
}
echo "</tr>";
}
Notice you also forgot to open a new tr for each line.