PHP For Loop dynamic from database - php

Question

I'm generating my check boxes from this code. But, I'm having difficulty with making it generate by 5 outputs then once the 5th output is displayed it should skip to the next line.
Would appreciate any help.
<?php
$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tbl_tourism_type order by type_name ");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="type" value='.$row['type_id'].'>'
.'<label>'.$row['type_name']. '</label>'.'<br>'.'<br>';
?>

Answer 1

<?php
$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tbl_tourism_type order by type_name ");
$i=1;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="type" value='.$row['type_id'].'><label>'.$row['type_name']. '</label>';
if($i%5==0)
{
echo "<br>";
}
$i++;
}
?>

Answer 2

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tbl_tourism_type order by type_name ");
$i=0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
if($i%5 == 0){
//skip to next line
//continue??
}
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="type" value='.$row['type_id'].'>'.'
<label>'.$row['type_name']. '</label>'.'<br>'.'<br>';
$i++;
}

Answer 3

Do like this
<?php
$i =1;
$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tbl_tourism_type order by type_name ");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
if($i == 5){
echo "<br>";
$i = 1;
}
else
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="type" value='.$row['type_id'].'>'
.'<label>'.$row['type_name']. '</label>';
$i++;
}
?>

Answer 4

You question is how to skip every 5th entry and to put a linebreak instead?
Have a try like this:
<?php
$i=0;
$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tbl_tourism_type order by type_name ");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
if (++$i % 5)
echo sprintf ( '<input type="checkbox" name="type" value="%s">'
.'<label>%s</label>'."\n",
htmlentities($row['type_id']),
htmlentities($row['type_name']) );
else
echo "<br>\n";
}
?>
In addition to iterating over all entries in the result just use a counter you increment with every iteration. Then, inside the iteration, only output the current entry if the counter modulo 5 is not zero. So if it is not a clean multiple of 5.