PHP displaying individual tables - php

Question

At the moment my produces results from a database and then inserts all of the results into one HTML table.
Is there any way that it would be possible so that for each result returned it created an individual HTML table (opposed to all of the results going into one HTML table)
My code:
<table class=\"board\" width='100%' border='0' align='center' cellpadding='1' cellspacing='1'>
");
$type = $_GET["type"];
if ($type == "" || $type == "request") {
$get = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM request WHERE type='Request' AND deleted != 'yes' ORDER BY id DESC");
} else {
if ($type == "shoutout") {
$get = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM request WHERE type='Shoutout' AND deleted != 'yes' ORDER BY id DESC");
} else {
if ($type == "competition") {
$get = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM request WHERE type='Competition' AND deleted != 'yes' ORDER BY id DESC");
} else {
if($type == "all") {
$get = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM request WHERE deleted != 'yes' ORDER BY id DESC");
}
}
}
}
$num = #mysql_num_rows($get);
if ($num == 0) {
echo ("<div class=\"board\"><center><font color=\"red\">There aren't any requests in this category!<br />
Why not ask listeners to send in their requests?</font></center></div>");
} else {
while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($get)) {
echo "
<tr>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\"><b>User</b></td>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\"><b>$r[habboname]</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\"><b>Date</b></td>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\">$r[date]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\"><b>IP</b></td>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\">$r[ip]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\"><b>Message</b></td>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\">$r[message]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\"><b>Type</b></td>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\">$r[type]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<!-- <td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\"><b>Refferer</b></td>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\">";
if($r[refferer] == 1){ echo "Site.com</td>"; } else { echo "Site1.com</td>"; }
echo "--></tr>
<tr>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\"><b>Commands</b></td>
<td><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\">Delete - Ban - <!--Alert-->Nominate LoTW</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
";
$id = htmlspecialchars($_GET['id']);
$delete = mysql_query("UPDATE request SET deleted = 'yes' WHERE id = '$id'");
}
echo ("</table></div>");
}
break;
case 'delete':

Answer 1

If you mean to create as many tables as there are returned rows, just put the opening <table> into the while's beginning and the closing </table> to the end of while. However, I don't understand why this would be desired. Do you really want to create many tables with just one row? It kind of defeats the purpose of a table. Make a list or use span's or anything else than tables instead.
while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($get)) {
echo "<table class=\"board\">
<tr>
<td><b>User</b></td>
<td><b>$r[habboname]</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Date</b></td>
<td>$r[date]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>IP</b></td>
<td>$r[ip]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Message</b></td>
<td>$r[message]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Type</b></td>
<td>$r[type]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<!-- <td><b>Refferer</b></td>
<td>";
if($r[refferer] == 1){ echo "Site.com</td>"; } else { echo "Site1.com</td>"; }
echo "--></tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Commands</b></td>
<td>Delete - Ban - <!--Alert-->Nominate LoTW</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>";
$id = htmlspecialchars($_GET['id']);
$delete = mysql_query("UPDATE request SET deleted = 'yes' WHERE id = '$id'");
}
echo "</div>"; //remove () after echo
Update. One another thing. Please don't use inline styling. You have table class="board" so you already probably know the power of CSS.
Second update. I removed <font ...> tags. Use CSS for example like this:
table.board{
width:100%;
border:0;
align:center;
cellpadding:1;
cellspacing:1;
}
table.board td{
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 1em;
}
CSS saves a lot of trouble when you want to change styling. And trust me, there will be a time when you want to change it (or your boss want's to bling-bling the site...).

Answer 2

ZZ-bb is absolutely right and as a hint try to put if/else construction in mysql - it will move faster or optimize it in php, like:
$get = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM request WHERE " . ($type == 'all' ? 'type = 1' : 'type = ucfirst($type)' ) . " AND deleted != 'yes' ORDER BY id DESC");