On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Thodoris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 21:23 +0300, Thodoris wrote:
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> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 13:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> 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 :-) .
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> Because I know my table contains 15 rows I can do this.
> $tulip = floor($gump /5);
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> You can count the rows (not the cols) in the result set but you can't
> base your algorithm on that only.
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> 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
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> You have a bug if you have 16 rows.
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> In my case I really don't care in what table the extra row goes.
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> 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): ?>
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> <?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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> As posted before Eric rows is the problem not columns...
>
Oh sorry I didn't read it close enough. If $data is already an array
this would be really easy with array_chunk. Otherwise you just need
to add an extra layer around your main table loop.
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