SQL Image Database assembling rows into HTML cells and rows - php

Question

I have a database of images which I want to output as a gallery ...
I want to display each image in its own cell <td>image1</td> and limit the number of cells to 7 per row.
<tr>
<td>image1</td><td>image2</td><td>image3</td><td>image4</td><td>image5</td><td>image6</td><td>image7</td>
</tr>
Then a new row would be created and continue to output all the images.
<tr>
<td>image8</td>
and so on ..
I know how to do a query, but I am lost as to how to assemble the rows into the format I am looking for.
Can anyone please help me it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

First run your query, then get the mysql_fetch_assoc in a variable. Then echo your beginning tags for the table and tr. Then create a foreach loop of the query assoc, as another variable such as row, and echo $row['image'] in a td. This will add a new td with the image for every entry in the database. Then echo your closing tags for the tr and table.
$query = mysql_query("SELECT image FROM table_name");
$query_a = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
echo "<table><tr>"
foreach ($query_a as $row)) {
echo "
<td>" . $row['image'] . "</td>
";
}
echo "</tr></table>";

Answer 2

Not tested, but try something like this
<table>
<?php
// make sure there is at least 1 row first
$cnt = 0;
$while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
{
if(++$cnt == 1) {
echo '<tr>';
} elseif($cnt % 7 == 0) {
echo '</tr><tr>';
}
// show images in <td>'s
echo "<td>" . $row['image']. "</td>";
}
echo '</tr>';
?>
</table>

Answer 3

Keep it simple:
Query the database to get the desired information, loop through the results, construct a new row come each new loop.
$sql = "Select * from table";
mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
if(mysql_num_rows !=0)
{
// Found at least one record, create table
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql)
{
$cell_count = 0;
// Create a new row for each record found
echo "<td>" . $row['image_column']. "</td>";
$cell_count++;
if($cell_count == 7)
{
echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
$cell_count = 0;
}
}
// Close the table
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
}