On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 21:23 +0300, Thodoris wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 13:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> >> Might I suggest you count the fields and divide it by the cols you want
>> >> to display?
>> >> Example
>> >> $forest = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM your_table");
>> >> $gump = mysql_num_fields($forest);
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>> First of all the problem is with the rows not the columns. The problem
>> is that I want to divide the rows into equal (or anything close to
>> that) chunks and put every chunk in a separate table.
>>
>> There I said it :-) .
>>
>> >> Because I know my table contains 15 rows I can do this.
>> >> $tulip = floor($gump /5);
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>> You can count the rows (not the cols) in the result set but you can't
>> base your algorithm on that only.
>>
>> The problem is that if for e.g. you have 91 rows and you want to divide
>> it into 3 you will have three chunks of 30 like this:
>>
>> 30, 30, 31
>>
>> > You have a bug if you have 16 rows.
>> >
>>
>> In my case I really don't care in what table the extra row goes.
>
> The solution is pretty easy, I just don't have time right now to write
> it for you. Either way, I would approach the problem inverseley to your
> current solution. Instead of traversing the rows and performing internal
> calculations, I'd calculate the tables and rows needed and then traverse
> that information and in the innermost loop traverse the result set using
> the next() function.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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When I need to do something like this I always use this base code that
I just edit. I wrote it a few years ago and haven't really changed it
so it works for what I need.
<?php
$results = 17; // how many cells do we actually have data for? [put
your record count here]
$cols = 8; // desired column width of the table
$total = $cols * ceil($results / $cols); // total cells to create
$rows = ceil($total / $cols); // total rows to create
$position = 0; // current position
echo "<br>results: ", $results;
echo "<br>cols: ", $cols;
echo "<br>total: ", $total;
?>
<table border="1">
<?php for ($row=0; $row < $rows; ++$row): ?>
<tr>
<?php for ($col=0; $col < $cols; ++$col): ?>
<?php if ($results > $position): ?>
<td>
<?php
// call your fetch record code here
echo 'Col: '. $col .'<br>';
echo 'Row: '. $row .'<br>';
echo 'Position: '. $position .'<br>';
?>
</td>
<?php else: ?>
<td>
empty cell
</td>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php ++$position; ?>
<?php endfor; ?>
</tr>
<?php endfor; ?>
</table>
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