Mysql fetch array, table results - php

Question

i'm pretty new to this and not sure how should i do it,
I've got a database with a column called "names"
how can i make it display in so?
<tr>
<td width="270px">Henry</td>
<td width="270px">Jeffrey</td>
<td width="270px">Hansel</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="270px">Michelle</td>
<td width="270px">Jackson</td>
<td width="270px">Ivan</td>
</tr>
I only know how i should do it if the records goes one after another vertically.
$result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM member');
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo'
<tr>
<td width="270px">'.$row['names'].'</td>
<td width="270px">Jeffrey</td>
<td width="270px">Hansel</td>
</tr>';
Kinda stucked here...
Sorry i forgot to put this.
what i want is that it should loop the tags along. So i can have a 3 column table with infinite rows.
what bout this one? What if i want this to loop instead?
<tr>
<td><img src="images/ava/A.png" /></td>
<td>A</td>
<td width="2px" rowspan="3"></td>
<td><img src="images/ava/B.png" /></td>
<td>B</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A</td>
<td>B</td>
</tr>

Answer 1

$row will update on each iteration of the loop:
$result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM member');
echo '<tr>';
for($i = 0; $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); $i = ($i+1)%3){
echo '<td width="270px">'.$row['names'].'</td>';
if($i == 2)
echo '</tr><tr>';
}
echo '</tr>';

Answer 2

$result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM member');
echo'<tr>'
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo '<td width="270px">'.$row['names'].'</td>';
}
echo '</tr>';

Answer 3

$result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM member');
echo '<tr>;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo '<td width="270px">'.$row['names'].'</td>';
}
echo '</tr>';

Answer 4

Lets say you have an array of the names called $names, then you could do what you wanted with code that looks something like this:
<tr>
<?php
foreach($names as $name) {
print "<td>$name</td>";
}
?>
</tr>
That would put all the names on the same row.
In order to start a new row say, every 3 names, you could put an if statement in the for loop like this:
// assume we have these variables available.
$row_number;
$max_cols = 3;
// this goes at the top of the foreach
if($row_number % $max_cols == 0) {
print '</tr><tr>';
}

Answer 5

You know accomplish this by assigning the row count before you start the variable and few flags to know initialized loop or started/ended loop.
$i = 1;
$initFlag = false;
$flag = "closed";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
if($i%3 == 0) $initFlag = false;
if($flag == "closed" && ($i == 1 || $i % 3 == 1)) {
echo "<tr>"; $flag = "started"; $initFlag = true;
}
echo '<td width="270px">'.$row['names'].'</td>';
if(!initFlag && $flag == "started" && $i % 3 ==0) {
echo "</tr>"; $flag = "closed";
}
$i++;
}

Answer 6

So most of these answers are going for the kludge. First, if all you want is the name in your resultset, then only ask for it. So rather than going with:
$result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM member');
Instead go with:
$result = mysql_query('SELECT names FROM member');
Also, everyone seems to be ignoring the three column request, and that can be satisfied using a modulo to tell when to break the rows. We'll do a little magic to make sure you always close the row tag.
$row_count = 0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
if( $row_count % 3 == 0 )
{
echo '<tr>';
}
echo '<td width="270px">'.$row['names'].'</td>';
if( $row_count % 3 == 0 )
{
echo '</tr>';
}
$row_count++;
}
I don't want to get too picky about your schema, but if you have a choice, it's better to name the table a plural like members rather than member, since you have a collection of rows, each one representing one 'member'. And unless your members have multiple names that column could probably best be called 'name' instead.