[SOLVED] Forum display table help

[stelthius]

Hellow guys, im just wondering if anyone can shed some light on my forum display issue, ive tried everything to get my forum to put a break like <br> before each new category but for the life of me cant figure it out any help is appretiated.

 

<?php
    $contentOutput .= "<table width='500' height='100' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center' summary='' border='1'>
		         <tr>
			  <td>Forum</td>
			  <td>Threads</td>
			  <td>Posts</td>
			  </tr>";

$getCats = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM forum_cats ORDER BY sort_order");
while($cat = mysql_fetch_array($getCats))
{
$getForums = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM forum_forums WHERE cat_id='".$cat['cat_id']."' ORDER BY sort_order");

    $contentOutput .= "<tr>
			  <td>".$cat['title']."</td>
			  </tr>";

while($forum = mysql_fetch_array($getForums))
{

$getThreads = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM forum_threads WHERE for_id='".$forum['for_id']."'");
$countThreads = mysql_num_rows($getThreads);

$posts = mysql_fetch_array($getThreads);
$getPosts = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM forum_posts WHERE thr_id='".$posts['thr_id']."'");
$countPosts = mysql_num_rows($getPosts);				

    $contentOutput .= "<tr>
			    <td><a href='index.php?page=community&option=threads&id=".$forum['for_id']."'>".$forum['title']."</a></td>
			    <td>$countThreads</td>
			    <td>$countPosts</td>
			    </tr>";

    }	
   }
$contentOutput .= "</table><br>";
?>

[ignace]

This code was missing colspan="3"

$contentOutput .= "<tr><td colspan=\"3\">".$cat['title']."</td></tr>";

 

To add a break-line type of thing you'll need to add an empty row as <br> won't do much in a table context. This will create a "break" before every category.

$contentOutput .= "<tr><td colspan=\"3\"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">".$cat['title']."</td></tr>";

[stelthius]

Hey ignance, the thing is i tried that but then that gives me a break before the table header which holds Forum | threads | Posts so would i in theory need two tables to acheive what im trying to do ? if so do you have any idea how ?