PHP loop - creating a table using a loop and giving it headers - php

Question

I am a few stages further in learning PHP but I have come to another annoying pit stop. I have a really simple bit of code that retrieves book items from my database. I am displaying them in an html table however because it is a loop, if I use the th tags for table header I get a header above every single data item!
Here is my code extract: (as you can see I have put my th tags as comments as that doesn't work)
<table border="0">
<br />
<?php
$count = 0;
while ($count < $numrow)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_array($results);
extract($row);
echo "<tr>";
//echo "<tr>";
//echo "<th>";
//echo "Book Title";
//echo "</th>";
//echo "<th>";
//echo "Book Author";
//echo "</th>";
//echo "<th>";
//echo "Book Publisher";
//echo "</th>";
//echo "<th>";
//echo "Book ISBN";
//echo "</th>";
//echo "</tr>";
echo "<td>";
echo "<a href='addtolist.php? bookname=".$bookname."&bookauthor=".$bookauthor."&bookpub=".$bookpub."&bookisbn=".$bookisbn."'>[+]</a>";
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookname;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookauthor;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookpub;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookisbn;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo "<a href='deletecd.php?bookname=".$bookname."'>Delete</a>";
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
$count = $count + 1;
}
?>

Answer 1

Move those echos out of your loop. Also, you shouldn't have a <br /> directly inside of a <table> tag.

Answer 2

Move your table header code outside of the loop.

Answer 3

IDIOT! Sorry guys....
Needed to put the th tags outside of the loop.... simple I know but easy to miss when your learning!
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Answer 4

Simply take the header outside the loop, so echo before you begin your loop but after the opening<table>

Answer 5

You have to move the headers above the loop:
<table border="0">
<tr>
<th>Book Title</th>
<th>Book Author</th>
<th>Book Publisher</th>
<th>Book ISBN</th>
</tr>
<?php
$count = 0;
while ($count < $numrow)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_array($results);
extract($row);
echo "<tr>"
echo "<td>";
echo "<a href='addtolist.php? bookname=".$bookname."&bookauthor=".$bookauthor."&bookpub=".$bookpub."&bookisbn=".$bookisbn."'>[+]</a>";
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookname;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookauthor;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookpub;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookisbn;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo "<a href='deletecd.php?bookname=".$bookname."'>Delete</a>";
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
$count = $count + 1;
}
?>

Answer 6

<table border="0">
<tr>
<th>Book Title</th>
<th>Book Author</th>
<th>Book Publisher</th>
<th>Book ISBN</th>
</tr>
<?php
$count = 0;
while ($count < $numrow)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_array($results);
extract($row);
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>";
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