[SOLVED] "paginating" issue

[rndilger]

The problem I'm having can be best described by looking at what I've current got at: http://www.indianasheep.com/memberlist. You'll notice that for the last entry (i.e., RndPig), there are 4 colored dots to the left of the MapIt button. In order to keep this system flexible, I'd like to have these dots arranged into lines of no more than 3 dots per line. Thus, for the RndPig record, I'd like 2 lines of dots (3 dots on first line, 1 dot on second line).

 

The mysql db behind this listing contains a single row for each member and there are columns specifying to which categories a member belongs. What I'm currently doing is looping through and outputing colored dots that indicate whether a member belongs to a certain category. Here is the code I use to do this:

 

for($i=0; $i<=count($field_names); $i++){
	if (strtolower($row[$field_names[$i]]) == 'y'){ echo "<img src='images/map/mapmarker". $i .".gif' border='0' alt='". ucwords(str_replace("_"," ",$mem_type[$i])) ."'> "; }
}

 

...where $field_names is an array that contains the actual column (field) names from the db and $row is an array that contains information as to which categories each member belongs (i.e., either a 'y' or a 'n').

 

This is where I need a little help. I don't know the best way to "paginate" the colored dots into rows of 3 as described above. Would this entail doing a count of the array elements in $row that equal 'y' and then using lots of if statements?

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Ryan

[bluesoul]

I'm not sure I'm following exactly what you're asking but if you just need two rows of three you may want another variable inside your loop that you increment and insert a linebreak if it's divisible by three.

[rndilger]

I'm not sure I'm following exactly what you're asking but if you just need two rows of three you may want another variable inside your loop that you increment and insert a linebreak if it's divisible by three.

 

Perfect, I wasn't in the right frame of mind to come up with that simple solution!

 

Ryan

[bluesoul]

I'm not sure I'm following exactly what you're asking but if you just need two rows of three you may want another variable inside your loop that you increment and insert a linebreak if it's divisible by three.

 

Perfect, I wasn't in the right frame of mind to come up with that simple solution!

 

Ryan

 

Hehe, I understand perfectly.  It can be way to easy to overthink a problem, that's why this place is great. 

 

EDIT:  As a note, you really don't even need to make a new var, just check $i, something like if($i%3 == 0) { echo "<br />"; }