As you can only navigate record by record through the database table I think
the only way, as far as I know, is to store the record values into array
variables and print it to the page after you'd reached the last record.
HTH
Jayme.
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De: olinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; PHP-DB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 23 de março de 2001 00:52
Assunto: [PHP-DB] comparison table script
I would like to make a comparison script that will compare two items. Here
is an example and my "halfway" there solution. [at least i think so
Here is my table [for the sake of this example]
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| car_ID | make | model | color |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
|________|_________|________|________|
I would like the user to be able to select two or more cars to be compared
[these will be passed from an html form as car_ID
Table will be laid out something like this.
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| | Car 1 | Car 2 | Car 3 |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| car_ID | 123 | 234 | 345 |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| make | honda | honda | ford |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| model | civic | civic | tempo |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| color | black | blue | red |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
basically the table is just displayed with fields and records transversed
[switched]
Now i select the info for the two cars, and $result holds the finished query
OK now to display it.
the first while loop will write the rows.
$table = "<TR>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$carID = $row['carID'];
$make = $row['make'];
$model = $row['model'];
$color = $row['color'];
$table .= "<TD>Car ID</TD><TD>$car_ID[1]</TD>";
2nd while loop - writes <TD>'s which vary based on number of carID's
selected
It will loop until all cars have been included
somehow i need to change $carID[1] to $carID[2]
so I need some help on the best way to do this...
After i am able to do this I will loop thru until it does not exist, in the
case of the table above it would be $car_ID[4]
$next will represent previous number of the array +1
/* start of second while or if/for loop */
if ($car_ID[$next] != "")
$table .= "<TD>$car_ID[$next]</TD>";
So basically that is as far as i have got. I would appreciate if anyone can
provide some direction
Thanks much,
olinux
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