Query result records to column for comparison - php

Question

Is there anyway to achieve displaying query results into columns and have the records go to the next row?
Here's my SQL table:
------------SQL TABLE -----------
id | product_name | product_type
0 | Lorem | Table
1 | Ipsum | Chair
2 | Dolor | Lamp
3 | Sit | Chair
This is what I would like.
Lorem | Ipsum | Dolor | Sit |
------------------------------------------------------------
id | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
type | Table | Chair | Lamp | Chair |
Desired output:
<table>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>Lorem</td>
<td>Ipsum</td>
<td>Dolor</td>
<td>Sit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>id</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>Table</td>
<td>Chair</td>
<td>Lamp</td>
<td>Chair</td>
</tr>
</table>
This is my code, but I know this is terribly wrong. I'm just stuck on how to make a new row for a field if that makes sense using while and for loops.
echo '<table><tr>';
$i=1;
while($rows = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
echo '<td><table><tr><th>'.$rows['product_name'].
'</th></tr><tr><td>'.$rows['product_id'].
'</td><td>'.$rows['product_type'].'</tr></table></td>';
if($i %2 == 0) {
echo '</tr>
<tr>'; }
}
echo'
</tr>
</table>';

Answer 1

You need to rotate your data.
You could use something like this (untested):
// build query
$query = "SELECT id, product_name, product_type FROM whatevertableyouhave";
// query the database
$result = mysql_query($query);
// cols we are interested in (from the SQL query)
$cols = array(
'id',
'product_name',
'product_type';
);
// initialize rotated result using cols
$rotated = array();
foreach($cols as $col) {
$rotated[$col] = array();
}
// fill rotated array
while(($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) !== false) {
foreach($cols as $col) {
$rotated[$col][] = $row[$col];
}
}
// echo html
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
foreach($cols as $col) {
echo "<th>{$col}</th>";
}
echo "</tr>";
foreach($rotated as $col => $values) {
echo "<tr>";
foreach($values as $value) {
echo "<td>" . htmlentities($value) . "</td>";
}
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";

Answer 2

try this
echo '<table>';
while($rows = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
echo '<tr><th>'.$rows['product_name'].
'</th></tr><tr><td>'.$rows['id'].
'</td></tr><tr><td>'.$rows['product_type'].
'</td></tr>';
}
echo' </table>';