PHP MySQL populating values from database - php

Question

lets say i retrieve all of the values where their position belongs to top8.I populate them out in a table and instead of displaying different kinds of values , it displays 3 tables with 3 different values, how is this so? any help so that different values belonging to certain values will all be displayed out? i only need one table with 3 different values.
<?
$facebookID = "top8";
mysql_connect("localhost","root","password") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("schoutweet") or ie(mysql_error());
$data= mysql_query("SELECT schInitial FROM matchTable WHERE position='".$facebookID."'")
or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($data))
{
?>
<center>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="tbl_bracket">
<tr>
<td class="brack_under cell_1"><a href="www.facebook.com"/>team 1.1><?= $row['schInitial']?><a/></td>
<td class="cell_2"> </td>
<td class="cell_3"> </td>
<td class="cell_4"> </td>
<td class="cell_5"> </td>
<td class="cell_6"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="brack_under_right_up">team 1.2><?= $row['schInitial']?></</td>
<td class="brack_right"><!--1.2.1--></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td class="brack_right"><!--2.1--></td>
<td class="brack_under"><!--3.1--></td>
<td><!--here?--></td>
<td><!--there?--></td>
<td><!--everywhere?--></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
<?
}
?>
</body>

Answer 1

That's because your <table> tag is within the loop! Place the <table> tag outside the while loop.

Answer 2

place your table tags outside the while loop

Answer 3

Because your writing the table tag inside the while loop. Everything inside the loop is done each loop cycle. If you only want to have one table in the output, you'll have to open and close the table outside of the loop, like this:
$data= mysql_query("SELECT schInitial FROM matchTable WHERE position='".$facebookID."'")
or die(mysql_error());
?>
<center>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="tbl_bracket">
<?
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($data))
{
?>
<tr>
<td class="brack_under cell_1"><a href="www.facebook.com"/>team 1.1><?= $row['schInitial']?><a/></td>
<td class="cell_2"> </td>
<td class="cell_3"> </td>
<td class="cell_4"> </td>
<td class="cell_5"> </td>
<td class="cell_6"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="brack_under_right_up">team 1.2><?= $row['schInitial']?></</td>
<td class="brack_right"><!--1.2.1--></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td class="brack_right"><!--2.1--></td>
<td class="brack_under"><!--3.1--></td>
<td><!--here?--></td>
<td><!--there?--></td>
<td><!--everywhere?--></td>
</tr>
<?
}
?>
</table>
</center>
That will, however, print three rows per loop and therefore per record (but you have references to the table contents in two of them, so I suppose that's what you want?).
Also take care about some not well-formed HTML you have there (e.g. the > character in the expression team 1.1> / team 1.2>. If you want to print the > character to the browser, encode it as HTML entity (> for this case). You also have a probably superfluous </ in the first column of the second row (</</td>).

Answer 4

you need to echo the HTML part as well in the while loop like
echo '<table>';