[SOLVED] Every other while highlighting

[Clinton]

How do I get every other result to highlight its background a different color?

 

Here's me code:

 

<table width="95%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" class="boxtitle">
				<?php

				$sql = "SELECT * FROM thelist WHERE username = '$uid' ORDER BY jpted";

				$rs = mysql_query($sql);

        			while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs))
				{
    				extract($row);
    				?>
    				
  					<tr><td>
				<a href="editaj.php?jid=<?php echo $id; ?>"> <?php echo $jtitle; ?> </a></td> <td> <?php echo $city; ?>, <?php echo $state; ?> </td>     <td><a href="editaj.php?jid=<?php echo $id; ?>"> Edit </a></td>     <td><a href="editaj.php?jid=<?php echo $id; ?>&del=yes"> Delete </a></td>
				</td></tr>
				<?php } ?>

		</table>

 

 

[premiso]

<table width="95%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" class="boxtitle">
               <?php

               $sql = "SELECT * FROM thelist WHERE username = '$uid' ORDER BY jpted";

               $rs = mysql_query($sql);
               $i=0;
                 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs))
               {
                extract($row);
                
                 $bground = "some style";
                 if (($i%2) == 0) 
                       $bground = "somealretnatestyle";
                 $i++;
                ?>
                
                 <tr class="<?php echo $bground; ?>"><td>
               <a href="editaj.php?jid=<?php echo $id; ?>"> <?php echo $jtitle; ?> </a></td> <td> <?php echo $city; ?>, <?php echo $state; ?> </td>     <td><a href="editaj.php?jid=<?php echo $id; ?>"> Edit </a></td>     <td><a href="editaj.php?jid=<?php echo $id; ?>&del=yes"> Delete </a></td>
               </td></tr>
               <?php } ?>

         </table>

 

And a side note, the % operator is the modulus operator if you want to look up on it.

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.arithmetic.php

[Clinton]

Ok, so it does a/b or in this case $i/2. $i starts off as 0 so 0/2 = 0 and it's the first style. Then it adds one $i++ so then it's 1/2, which is different then 0. But then we add one more, right??? Which then becomes 2/2... which equals 1... which is not 0... so how does the script work (and it does work, thank you.)???

[premiso]

Modulus does not just divide, it returns the remainder.

 

1/2 returns .5 as the remainder. 2/2 returns 0 as the remainder. 0/2 returns 0 as the remainder, 1 returns .5 as the remainder, rinse and repeat.

[Clinton]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh... gotcha, gotcha. Thank you.