Cross tabulating a query with php - php

Question

I'm trying to come up with an efficient way of displaying some data but not succeeding at all.
The table is built dynamically from a few tables to show a row of headers with the columns populated showing the results by site e.g:
Site name | Column A | Column B | Column C => column headers continue from DB query
Site A | Result A | Result B | Result C
Site B | Result C | Result B | Result C
Site C | Result C | Result B | Result C
Results keep going vertically.
Here's the query I'm using
$risk_section=$row_risk_category['risksectid'];
mysql_select_db($database_auditing, $auditing);
$qry_selfsites = sprintf("SELECT
tblself.siteid AS selfsite,
tblsite.sitename AS sitename,
tblsite.address AS address,
tblpct.pctname AS pctname,
tblresultsnew.total,
tblresultsnew.auditid AS auditid,
tblriskcategories.risksectid AS risksectid,
tblriskcategories.risksection AS risksection
FROM tblself
LEFT JOIN tblresultsnew ON tblself.auditid = tblresultsnew.auditid
LEFT JOIN tblsite ON tblself.siteid = tblsite.siteid
LEFT JOIN tblpct ON tblsite.pctid = tblpct.pctid
LEFT JOIN tblriskcategories ON
tblresultsnew.risksectid=tblriskcategories.risksectid
WHERE tblsite.pctid IN (SELECT pctid FROM tblreportpcts WHERE
pctreportid='$pctreportid')
AND tblsite.sitetypeid IN (SELECT sitetypeid FROM tblreportsites WHERE
pctreportid='$pctreportid')
AND tblself.year = %s
ORDER BY tblsite.pctid,tblsite.sitename",
GetSQLValueString($yearofrpt, "int"));
$selfsites = mysql_query($qry_selfsites, $auditing) or die(mysql_error());
$totalRows_selfsites = mysql_num_rows($selfsites);
So the question is, is there a way to get the data from the above query (or an adapted version thereof) to build the table dynamically with all the results lining up correctly?
So far, I can only get it to build vertically.
Sorry, edit time (having worked with the answer below, I realised I hadn't got the question worded very well)
What I'm trying to get is a row of column headers from the query (tblriskcategories.risksection AS risksection) These populate horizontally to give the columns names.
Then underneath, the sitename is displayed with the result corresponding to the column header above i.e.
<table>
<tr>
<th>Sitename</th>
<?php while($row_selfsites=mysql_fetch_assoc($selfsites){
//loop through the section headers pulled from the DB (tblriskcategories)
<th><?php echo $row_selfsites['risksection'];//show the section headers?></th>
<?php }
//end header loop then start another loop to show a row for each site pulled
//out by the query and show the relevant results in the correct column
while($row_selfsites=mysql_fetch_assoc($selfsites)) {
//do the vertical drop matching the header rows with the sitenames from tblsite
//and the results from tblresultsnew
?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $row_selfsites['sitename'];?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_selfsites['total'];
//these need to grow to fit the headers and each site?></td>
<tr>
<?php } //end displayed data loop?>
</table>
The relevant tables structure below:
tblresultsnew resultsid,auditid,risksectid,total
tblriskcategories risksectid, risksection
tblself selfauditid,siteid,auditid
tblsite siteid,sitename
So tblself holds the list of sites we need the data for and the relevant auditid,
tblresultsnew holds the results - the total column - for each risksectid and each auditid eg, one auditid can have approx 8 risksectid's each with corresponding total
tblriskcategories holds the column headings
tblsite holds the site data to make it mean something
I hope this explains the question a little further.
Thanks again for all the help.
Dave

Answer 1

$rows = array(
0 => array('headingA' => 'results1a', 'headingB' => 'results1b', ),
1 => array('headingA' => 'results2a', 'headingB' => 'results2b', ),
2 => array('headingA' => 'results3a', 'headingB' => 'results3b', ),
);
// $rows is spoofing a db result set as an array
//var_dump( $rows );
$first = true ;
$header_row = "START TABLE <br />" ;
$data_rows = "";
foreach( $rows as $row ) {
foreach( $row as $key=>$value ){
if( $first === true ){
$header_row .= "$key | ";
}
$data_rows .= "$value |";
}
if( $first ) $header_row .="<br />";
$data_rows .= "<br />";
$first = false;
}
echo $header_row . $data_rows . "END TABLE";
Gives:
START TABLE
headingA | headingB |
results1a |results1b |
results2a |results2b |
results3a |results3b |
END TABLE
Is that the kind of solution you are after?