Question about loops

[king.oslo]

Hey, i am trying to decide if I can do this with a while loop rather than a for loop.

 

I am putting images and some text into table with 3 col and numerous rows.

I want each <td> contains only one image and relevant text.

 

The question is, where do I place the </tr> so that the second row of images (that is image 4,5,6) end up on their correct row?

 

I would like to avoid looping thee and three <td> because it will be easier to edit later.

 

Does anyone know how to do this?

 

Thanks

 

Marius

[ninnypants]

not sure what you mean but wouldn't it be easier to do all three <td>'s at once so that you'd only have to use one loop?

[king.oslo]

That's what I mean. Do I need to put three <td> in at a time? Is there not a way in which I can put only one in the loop, and it adds one <tr> every three cycle automatically?

 

Thanks!M

[laffin]

Problem you will encounter is the last row, if the items listed doesnt fall exactly on an end tag.

so u will have to add a check for it after the while loop and fill in the extra columns

 

<?php

$items=rand(5,20);
$cols=rand(2,5);

$counter=0;

Echo "Items={$items}  Columns={$cols}<br>\n";
echo "<table>\n<";
while($counter<$items)
{
	if(!($counter%$cols))
		echo "<tr>\n";
	echo "  <td>$counter</td>\n";
	$counter++;
	if(!($counter%$cols))
		echo "</tr>\n";
}
if(($counter%$cols))
{
	while(($counter)%$cols) { echo "  <td> </td>\n"; $counter++;}
	echo "</tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>";
?>