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Displaying Data from MySQL in a table on HTML page

JBuss1503

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JBuss1503

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Hi all, I was wondering if you can help me with an issue I am having with my website. I am very new to php/html/css and mysql so I know very little. I have an order form on my website which when filled in send data to my database. I then have an admin page on my site which shows the data in the database. However, I need the data to be stored in a table with a row containing the column name and then each row showing the actual data underneath. Would like it in a grid sort of format. My current code is:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<title></title>
	<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
	<link href="css/reset.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container2">
<div id="adminpanel">
Admin Page 

<div id="showorders"><u>Orders</u></div>
<?php
include('connection.php');
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM orderform");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  echo "<span style='color: #333; width: 200px; height: 200px; padding: 1px; border: 1px solid #ff9900;'>" . $row['product'] . " " . $row['productcomments'] . " " . $row['name'] . " " .       $row['address'] . " " . $row['age'] . " " . $row['delivery'] . "</span>" ;
echo "<br>";
  }
?>


<div id="showreviews"><u>Reviews</u></div>
<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM reviewform");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  echo "<span style='color: #333; width: 200px; height: 200px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #ff9900;'>" . $row['name'] . " " . $row['product'] . " " . $row['comment']  . "</span>" ;
echo "<br>";
  
  echo $row['name'] . " " . $row['product'] . " " . $row['comment']  ;
  echo "<br>";
  }
?>

</div>
</div>
</body>

This code puts a border around each row but doesnt seperate each column and doesnt show a header. Ultimately, I am going to want to sort each order by different criteria e.g alphabetical, date ordered, product type.

All help is really appreciated as I am really pushed for time and a complete beginner.

Thanks Jonathan

Ch0cu3r Newbie

Ch0cu3r

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Sounds like what you want is a HTML table. The basic code for a table is

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Heading 1</th>
    <th>Heading 2</th>
    etc...
  </tr>
  <tr>
     <td>Column 1</td>
     <td>Column 2</td>
     etc...
  <tr>
  <tr>
     etc. 
  </tr>
</tablel>

So the column headings go between <th> and </th>, each row is echoed between <tr> and </tr> and each column value is echo'd between <td> and </td>.

 

The following with output the results from your orderform query into a HTML table

<div id="showorders"><u>Orders</u></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="4"> <!-- start the table, defining the table column headings -->
    <tr>
        <th>Product</th>
        <th>Comments</th>
        <th>Name</th>
        <th>Address</th>
        <th>Age</th>
        <th>Delivery</th>
    </tr>   
<?php
include('connection.php');
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM orderform");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
    // each row returned from the query echo into individual columns for the table
    echo '      <tr>
        <td>'.$row['product'].'</td>
        <td>'.$row['productcomments'].'</td>
        <td>'.$row['name'].'</td>
        <td>'.$row['address'].'</td>
        <td>'.$row['age'].'</td>
        <td>'.$row['delivery'].'</td>
    </tr>';
}
?>
</table> <!-- end table -->

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