PHP - Distribute Results Evenly Between Columns

hello, all:

I'm a newbie, and been trying to work out a way so that the results from an array (or mysql recordset for that matter), are nicely aranged in a table. I want them to show in a grid-like manner, with rows and columns added according to number of "items".

I worked out this small code snippet, with a sample array, and for the life of me, cant figure out how to make it so it automatically "breaks" columns at 5 and start new row. I got it to show me right number of rows, but then it repeats all 10 names within them, as opposed to just showing 5 names in each row...

Appreciate the help...

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<?php
$names = array('Charles','Henry','Manny','Philip','Rose','Evelyn','Peter','Julia','Cary','Sophia');
$numberColumns = 5;
$numberNames = count($names);
$numberRows = ceil($numberNames / $numberColumns);

echo "<table border='1' width='400' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>";

for ($i=1; $i<=$numberRows; $i++)
{ 
echo "<tr>";
foreach ($names as $name)
{
echo "<td>" . $name . "</td>";
}
echo "</tr>"; 
}

echo "</table>";
?>

Hi All

i am wanting a column list like this

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions

basically the database is set up as
(id, category, parent)

I want the parent to group the category section and list like the the joomla example in three columns

search various threads throughout the internet but none seem to cover this entirely

can any one please help?????

I sell a webscript which is written in the php language. What I want to do is create a license for each user and limit the script installation to one domain only.

Also, I want to distribute this same script as a free trial for 15 days. After that the user must upgrade. The script will call home to verify if the user has valid record in our server or not.

What's the best and "hard to crack" way to distribute license in that way?

Hi,

I need some help getting my head around arrays.

I have a basket of fruit:

$basket=("Apple","$Orange","$Banana","$Banana","$Peach","$Apple","$Banana","$Orange","$Apple");

I want to distribute and share this basket of fruit into bowls, such that each bowl contains the following:

$bowl=("$Apple",$Orange,"$Banana","$Banana")

ie. One Apple, One Orange & Two Bananas.

I can't seem to figure out how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

Is there a way to echo the results of a query as separate columns as opposed to one under the other?

Hi,

having stopped php for a while, i'm a little rusty, can someone help me - instead of the results returning in a row by row format, can i have it so it returns column by column?
so, rather than result 1 being first, then 2 underneath then 3 etc etc, can i have result 2 next to result 1?

heres my code

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members ORDER BY member_id DESC")   
or die(mysql_error());  

echo "<table border='2'>";
echo "<tr> <th></th> <th></th> <th></th> </tr>";
// keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
// Print out the contents of each row into a table
echo "<tr><td>"; 
echo $row[printf('<img src="%s" height="96" width="128" style="border: 0" />', $row['profile_pic_short'])];
echo "</td><td>"; 
echo "<a href=\"PHP-Login/advert_pages/view_profile_specific.php?seller_name=$row[login]\">". $row['login'] . "</a>";
echo "</td></tr>"; 

} 

echo "</table>";
?>


all help appreciated

thanks

I have a 2 part question i hope is an easy Fix, i know very little about any of this, I have a list of teams that shows up and is is showing in ONE long column, i want to do to things, Make it multiple columns & sort alphabetically

like this:
123
456
789

Here is the link to the test page right now
http://tspclan.com/SS/test.php

And the page code (top half of it anyways)
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<?php require_once("global.php");
$id = htmlentities($_GET['id']);
$order = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['order']);
if($order == "levela")
{
$order = "ORDER BY `defwin` ASC";
$l_pre = "<a href='?id=$id&order=leveld'>";
$l_suf = "</a>";
}
elseif($order == "leveld")
{
$order = "ORDER BY `defwin` DESC";
$l_pre = "<a href='?id=$id&order=levela'>";
$l_suf = "</a>";
}
else
{
$order = "ORDER BY `defwin` DESC";
$l_pre = "<a href='?id=$id&order=levela'>";
$l_suf = "</a>";
}
$team = mysql_query(
"SELECT *
FROM
`teams`
WHERE `id`='".$id."'");
$t = mysql_fetch_array($team);
$team_title = mysql_real_escape_string($t['title']);
$t_tag = $t['tag'];
$page1 = $t['page1'];
$user = mysql_query(
"SELECT *
FROM
`users`
WHERE `team`='".$id."'
$order");
?>
<script src="http://tspclan.com/js/fbid.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://tspclan.com/js/pid.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://tspclan.com/js/sorttable.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<title><?php echo $team_title; ?></title>
</head>
<link href="http://tspclan.com/mkportal/templates/TSP/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<body>
<div align="center">
<?php
if(mysql_num_rows($team) == false)
{
$team2 = mysql_query(
"SELECT *
FROM
`teams`");
?>
    <table width="100%" border="0" class="unsortable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td background="img/hdr_left.jpg">&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="590"><div align="center"><img src="img/hdr.jpg" width="590" height="346" /></div></td>
    <td background="img/hdr_right.jpg">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<br><br>
<table width="250"  cellspacing="0" class="unsortable" cellpadding="5" border="0" id="mwid">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" class="index_title unsortable" col span="3" >Team Name</td>
</tr>
   
<?php 
while($t2 = mysql_fetch_array($team2))
{
$t_name = "<a  style='font-weight:bold; font color:#333333;' href='?id=".$t2['id']."'>".$t2['title']."</a>"; 

echo "
        <tr> <td valign='top' align='center' width='50' class='row1 b_t' style='border-bottom:none; width:5px; background-color:#333333;'>".$t_name."</td>
";
}
?>

2nd Part of my question, When i call for a team my link is test.php?id=(team id)
Is there a way to bring up multiple teams at the same time?

I am editing code to get sku numbers, for now it just prints as below:

SKU: 123
SKU: 322
SKU: 444
SKU: 555
SKU: 666

I want to put them in columns so it prints as:

SKU: 123      SKU: 322     SKU: 444       SKU: 555
SKU: 666      etc.              etc.

So it is devided into 4 columns.

The code that controls is:
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<?php if (is_array($order->products)) {
                            $context = array(
                              'revision' => 'formatted',
                              'type' => 'order_product',
                              'subject' => array(
                                'order' => $order,
                              ),
                            );
                            foreach ($order->products as $product) {
                              $price_info = array(
                                'price' => $product->price,
                                'qty' => $product->qty,
                              );
                              $context['subject']['order_product'] = $product;
                              $context['subject']['node'] = node_load($product->nid);
                              ?>
                      <?php echo $product->model; ?><br />
                             
                          <?php }
                              }?>
i would appreciate some help

I have a page that displays a list of retail locations (est. 100-150 locations).

I have my layout setup to fit 3 columns side by side. Ex:

<div class="col"></div>
<div class="col"></div>
<div class="col"></div>

.. with the "col" class having a specific width and float: left.

Basically, I want to print out the locations in the column and when a column reaches a certain number of locations, it closes that div and starts a new one and continues printing the rest of the locations.

How would I go about making sure that once a column has reached a certain number of locations, it closes the div and starts the new one?

Hi, I have a piece of code which I trying to search two columns but I just cant get it to work.  Instead it just dumps around 30 entries onto the page.  Can anyone point me in the direction of how to search two columns?

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$query = "SELECT * FROM questions";

if(isset($_GET['question']) && !empty($_GET['notes'] ))
{
/*query the database*/
$question = $_GET['question'];
$notes = $_GET['notes'];
$query .= " WHERE question && notes like '%$question%' LIMIT 0, 10";
}

$result = mysql_query($query);

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))

{

$question = $row['question'];
$notes = $row['notes'];

echo "$question
$notes  </br>";
}

i have this code but it shows the password of the user to...
Code: [Select]
<?php
$database="dynamicg_sites";
mysql_connect ("localhost","dynamicg_sites","boom123");
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
$result = mysql_query( "SELECT * FROM sites order by votes DESC" )
or die("SELECT Error: ".mysql_error());
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
print "<br>\n";
print "There are $num_rows News Articles";
print "<br>\n";
print "<table width=457 border=0>\n";
print "<tr>\n";
print "<td>\n";
echo "Title:";
print "</td>\n";
print "<td>\n";
echo "Description:";
print "</td>\n";
print "<td>\n";
echo "Votes:";
print "</td>\n";
print "</tr>\n";
while ($get_info = mysql_fetch_row($result)){
print "<tr>\n";
foreach ($get_info as $field)
print "\t<td><font face=arial size=2/>$field</font></td>\n";
print "</tr>\n";
}
print "</table>\n";
print "<br />\n";
print "<br />\n";
?>i was wondering how do i make this only show certain columns...
thanks in advance...

Hi all,

This application is given me a nightmare. The code fetches root categories and its sub categories from the a database table. The div table have only 2 columns. I want to add 2 extra columns so that I have 4 columns. Because we have a long list of subcategories meaning I have to scroll down to view the category. Please help

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{include file='t_javascript_language.tpl'}
{set_css}
{set_js}

<!--<div class="componentheading">{$page_title}</div>-->

<div class="adds_man_list">
<span>{$category_pathway}</span>
{if $current_category->catname!=""}
<div style="border:2px solid #000;">
{include file='elements/display_fields.tpl' position='categoryicon' this_add=$current_category->id}

<strong>{$current_category->catname}</strong>

<div class="adds_subcat" style="text-align:right;background:#F5F5F5; border:1px solid #FFFFFF; " >

{include file='elements/display_fields.tpl' position='categorydetails' this_add=$current_category->id}

<span style="font-size:12px;">

{jtext text="ADS_SUBCATEGORIES"}:   {$current_category->kids} {jtext text="ADS_ADS"}: {$current_category->nr_ads}
<a href="{$current_category->view}" title="{jtext text='ADS_VIEW_LISTINGS'}">
<img src="{$IMAGE_ROOT}view_listings.gif" class="ads_noborder" alt="{jtext text='ADS_VIEW_LISTINGS'}" />
</a>
</span>
</div>
</div>
{/if}
{if $categories|@count<=0}
<h2>{jtext text="ADS_NO_CATEGORIES_DEFINED"}</h2>
{/if}
<table id="adds_categories" class="ads_table">
{section name=category loop=$categories}
{if $smarty.section.category.rownum is odd}
<tr>
{/if}
<td width="50%" class="adsman_catcell" valign="top">
<div class="adds_maincat" {if $categories[category]->watchListed_flag}class="cat_watchlist"{/if}>

{include file='elements/display_fields.tpl' position='categoryicon' this_add=$categories[category]->id}
<a href="{if $categories[category]->kids>0}{$categories[category]->link}{else}{$categories[category]->view}{/if}" >
{$categories[category]->catname}
</a>
{if $categories[category]->is_new}
<!--NEW!!-->
<img src="{$IMAGE_ROOT}new.png" alt="new ads" />
{/if}
<a href="{$categories[category]->view}" title="{jtext text='ADS_VIEW_LISTINGS'}">
<img src="{$IMAGE_ROOT}view_listings.gif" class="ads_noborder" alt="{jtext text='ADS_VIEW_LISTINGS'}" />
</a>
{if $is_logged_in}
{if $categories[category]->watchListed_flag}
<img src="{$IMAGE_ROOT}watchlist.png" width="16"class="ads_noborder" />
{/if}
<a href="{$categories[category]->link_watchlist}">
<img src="{$categories[category]->img_src_watchlist}" width="16" class="ads_noborder" title="{if $categories[category]->watchListed_flag}{jtext text='ADS_REMOVE_FROM_WATCHLIST'}{else}{jtext text='ADS_ADD_TO_WATCHLIST'}{/if}"/>
</a>
{/if}
<br />
</div>

<div class="adds_subcat" style="background:#F5F5F5; border:1px solid #FFFFFF; " >
{include file='elements/display_fields.tpl' position='categorydetails' this_add=$categories[category]->id}
<br />

{section name=subcategory loop=$categories[category]->subcategories}

{include file='elements/display_fields.tpl' position='categoryicon' this_add=$categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->id}
<a href="{if $categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->kids>0}{$categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->link}{else}{$categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->view}{/if}">{$categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->catname}</a>
{if $categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->is_new==1}
<img src="{$IMAGE_ROOT}new.png" alt="new ads" />
{/if}
({$categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->nr_a} {jtext text="ADS_ADS"})
{if $categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->watchListed_flag}
<img src="{$IMAGE_ROOT}watchlist.png" width="16" class="ads_noborder" />
{/if}
{if $is_logged_in}
<a href="{$categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->link_watchlist}">
<img src="{$categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->img_src_watchlist}" width="14" class="ads_noborder" title="{if $categories[category]->subcategories[subcategory]->watchListed_flag}{jtext text='ADS_REMOVE_FROM_WATCHLIST'}{else}{jtext text='ADS_ADD_TO_WATCHLIST'}{/if}"/>
</a>
{/if}
<br />
<p style="margin-left:25px;">
{include file='elements/display_fields.tpl' position='categorydetails' this_add=$categories[category]->id}
</p>
{/section}
</div>
</td>
{if $smarty.section.category.rownum is not odd}
</tr>
{/if}
{/section}
</table>
</div>

Many thanks

Hey guys, I have made an array where only the name shows up, but I want the price next to it. I adapted the query, but how do I need to adapt the array? peace
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<?php

// connect to your database
      
      $DrinkArray=array()   ;
  

      $DrinkResult=mysql_query("SELECT name,price FROM products")or die(mysql_error());

      while($DrinkRow=mysql_fetch_assoc($DrinkResult)){
         $DrinkArray[]=$DrinkRow['name'];

      }

      //check your output with something like this
      foreach($DrinkArray as $value){
         echo $value.'<br />';
      }
?>

I'm working on a site where I've implemented a simple back end wysiwyg editor for content on a page. Then on the public page I run a php query to pull that content and display it. But doing this cancels out the css I have been using to split content into two columns. Is there a way to do this in php, or is there a way to circumvent the problem?  ( also tried echoing the entire css style along with the query result - that didn't work either)

The <p id='container_sub'> is what is split into two columns. I tried it outside of the query, and inside the query around where I echo results. Neither worked.
Here's the basic php code, and further down the css that makes two columns:
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<?php

$pageid = '2';
  
// Formulate Query
// This is the best way to perform an SQL query
// For more examples, see mysql_real_escape_string()
$query = sprintf("SELECT content FROM tbl_pages WHERE page_id='%s'",
     mysql_real_escape_string($pageid));

// Perform Query
$result = mysql_query($query);

// Check result
// This shows the actual query sent to MySQL, and the error. Useful for debugging.
if (!$result) {
    $message  = 'Invalid query: ' . mysql_error() . "\n";
    $message .= 'Whole query: ' . $query;
    die($message);
}

// Use result
// Attempting to print $result won't allow access to information in the resource
// One of the mysql result functions must be used
// See also mysql_result(), mysql_fetch_array(), mysql_fetch_row(), etc.
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    echo "<p id='container_sub'>".$row['content']."</p>";

}

// Free the resources associated with the result set
// This is done automatically at the end of the script
mysql_free_result($result);
      
?>

The css....
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#container_sub {-moz-column-count: 2;
-moz-column-gap: 25px;
-webkit-column-count: 2;
-webkit-column-gap: 20px;
column-count: 2;
column-gap: 20px;}

#container_sub2 {-moz-column-count: 2;
-moz-column-gap: 25px;
-webkit-column-count: 2;
-webkit-column-gap: 20px;
column-count: 2;
column-gap: 20px;}

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