Populating Navigation Tabs with SQL? - php

Question

I'm looking for some kind of Nav tab (vertical) that allows it to be populated by SQL. For example, in the SQL table there would be a column for title (which is the title of the tab) and a column for the contents of the tab.
I have tried building one myself, but I have no idea how to fit it in a nav bar because usually I'd do a while loop to populate something with SQL, but because nav's have two things that need populating (the <li> and the <div> bits), I am unsure of how to do it.
Thanks.
Edit:
<ul>
<?php
$query = tep_db_query("select * table1");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
echo '<li>' . $row['tabtitle'] . '</li>'
}
?>
</ul>
<?php
$query2 = tep_db_query("select * table1");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query2)) {
echo '
<div id="tabs-' . $row['tabid'] . '">
<p> ' . $row['tabcontent'] . ' </p>
'
}
?>

Answer 1

What you have seems like it would be okay, you might be able to do something like this in order to eliminate half of your db calls.
//Get information from db.
<?php
$query = tep_db_query("SELECT tabid, tabtitle, tabcontent FROM table1");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
$table[] = $row;
}
?>
<ul>
<?php foreach($table as $row){
echo '<li>' . $row['tabtitle'] . '</li>';
}
?>
</ul>
<?php foreach($table as $row){
echo '
<div id="tabs-' . $row['tabid'] . '">
<p> ' . $row['tabcontent'] . ' </p>
';
}
?>