Not printing all rows in mysql table - php

Question

I'm creating a movie database for private purposes. As a part of the database I want to be able to show the movies by sorting by genre, starting letter of movies or just show all.
I want to display the hits in a three column table until all rows in the database table have been printed.
For example:
Ice age 1 Ice age 2 Ice age 3
Die Hard 1 Die Hard 2 Die hard 3
What happens with the code below (Which is used when all movies should be shown) is that it stops after 39 rows even though I know it's 50 rows, mysql_num_rows() returns 50 and when I just printed the complete db table in 1 column I got 50 rows.
$counterone = 0;
$countertwo = 0;
if ($_movietype == 'showmeeverything')
{
$movieresult = mysql_query("SELECT url,title FROM movies ORDER BY title");
if(mysql_num_rows($movieresult) == 0)
{
nomovie();
}
echo '<p align="center">Go back</p>';
echo '<table border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding=2" align="center">';
echo '<tr><td colspan="3" align="center"><b>Title</b></td></tr>';
echo mysql_num_rows($movieresult);
while ($counterone < mysql_num_rows($movieresult))
{
$counterone++;
echo '<tr>';
while (($result = mysql_fetch_array($movieresult)) && $countertwo < 3)
{
echo '<td>';
echo '' . $result['title'] . '';
echo '</td>';
$countertwo++;
}
echo '</tr>';
$countertwo = 0;
}
echo '</table>';
echo '<p align="center"><a align="center" href="index.php">Go back</a></p>';
}

Answer 1

You're not incrementing $counterone in the right spot. You're counting table ROWS, but are working off number of records. $counterone should be inside the internal while($result) loop. And once it's there, $countertwo is redundant.
Try this instead:
$counter = 0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($movieresult)) {
if ($counter % 3 == 0)
echo '<tr>';
}
echo "<td> blah blah blah </td>";
if ($counter % 3 == 2) {
echo '</tr>';
}
$counter++;
}

Answer 2

Try this:
$counterone = 0;
$countertwo = 0;
if ($_movietype == 'showmeeverything')
{
$movieresult = mysql_query("SELECT url,title FROM movies ORDER BY title");
if(mysql_num_rows($movieresult) == 0)
{
nomovie();
}
echo '<p align="center">Go back</p>';
echo '<table border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding=2" align="center">';
echo '<tr><td colspan="3" align="center"><b>Title</b></td></tr>';
echo mysql_num_rows($movieresult);
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($movieresult);
while ($counterone < $numrows)
{
$counterone++;
echo '<tr>';
while (($result = mysql_fetch_array($movieresult)) && $countertwo < 3)
{
echo '<td>';
echo '' . $result['title'] . '';
echo '</td>';
$countertwo++;
}
echo '</tr>';
$countertwo = 0;
}
echo '</table>';
echo '<p align="center"><a align="center" href="index.php">Go back</a></p>';
}