alternating table colours..

[runnerjp]

would i be able to change the table colours by doing somethign such as sticking in in some kind of loop and echoing it out in a class ??

 

as you can see my data is large so this would be the easyest option i belive?

 

<tr class='mainrow'><td valign='top'><div align="center"><strong>
  <?php //We need to add a Little variable that will automatically increase so that
//Each div (container) in the editforum.php script is unique:
$CONT_ID = 1;
?>
  <a href='/members/<? echo $gettopic3['author']; ?>'><? echo 
$gettopic3['author'] ?></a></strong><a href='/members/<? echo $gettopic3['author']; ?>'></a> <?php $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM useronline WHERE(user='".$gettopic3['author']."')");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {

$last_active = time() - $row['timestamp'];
}

if($last_active < 300) {

   echo '<img src="http://www.runningprofiles.com/images/useron.gif" width="12" height="11" />';
   
}
else
{  echo '<img src="http://www.runningprofiles.com/images/useroff.gif" width="12" height="11" />'; }
}?></div>
    <p align="center">
  <?


$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE Username = '".$gettopic3['author']."' LIMIT 1"; 
if ($result = mysql_query($query)){
    if (mysql_num_rows($result)) {
        $array = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
        $image = $array['image'];
$postnum = $array['post_count'];

echo "<img src=\"http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/images/mini/$image\" border=\"1\"  />";?><br />
<span class="style7">Posts: <?php echo $postnum;?></span> 

<?
}
?>
</td>
  <td valign='top'><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="3%" rowspan="2"><div align="center"><img src="http://www.runningprofiles.com/images/posted.jpg" width="17" height="33" /></div></td>
      <td width="97%" colspan="2" valign="top"><a href='index.php?page=message&forum=<? echo $forum; ?>&id=<? echo $gettopic3[postid] ?>'><strong><? echo $gettopic3[title] ?></strong></a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top"><span class="style7">Posted 
          <? $dbtime=$gettopic3['showtime']; $time = date("F j Y, g:i a", $dbtime); ?>
          <?  $dbtime = $gettopic3['lastrepliedto']; 
         $time = date("F j, Y, g:i a", $dbtime); 


// Get current timestamp
$intTime = time();
// Calculate difference
$intDiff = $intTime - $dbtime;

// Check time
switch($intDiff)
{
      case ($intDiff < 60):
                echo "<strong>Less than a minute ago</strong>";
                break;
        case ($intDiff < 3600):
                echo "<strong>Less than an hour ago</strong>";
                break;
        case ($intDiff < 7200):
                echo "<strong>One hour ago</strong>";
			break;
        case ($intDiff < 10800):
                echo "<strong>Two hours ago</strong>";
			break;
	case ($intDiff < 86400):
                echo "<strong>Today</strong>";
			break;
	case ($intDiff < 172800):
                echo "<strong>Yesterday</strong>";
                break;
        default:
               echo $time;
		   
}
?>  
        </span></td>
      <td align="right" valign="bottom"><form action="index.php?page=reply&id=<? echo $id ?>" method="post" name="quote">

  <input name="quote" type="hidden" value="<? echo $gettopic3['postid'];?>" />
  <input type="submit" value="quote" />
        </form></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td> </td>
      <td colspan="2"><hr color="#CCCCCC" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td> </td>
      <td height="90" colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><?php echo $gettopic3['post'];?></td>
    </tr>
  </table></td>
</tr>

 

 

[n3ightjay]

for loop would be the easiest then you already have a counter going but you could create a counter for a while loop.. sorry you'll have to figure out which of the following work better for you im to lazy to look through your code to figure out where / what your talking about

 

$counter = 0;
while(true){
  if($counter % 2 == 0){
    $class = "class1";
  }else{
    $class = "class2";
  }
  $counter++;
}

 

or

 

for($i = 0;$i <= $whatever;$i++){
  if($counter % 2 == 0){
    $class = "class1";
  }else{
    $class = "class2";
  }
}