Question

Greetings,

I have data stored on mysql with delimiter ‘,’ in 1 table. I have rows and column stored on database too. Now i have to output the data using rows and column number stored on database to draw the table.

Rows and column number are user input, so it may varies.

Let say, there is number 3 on column and 3 on rows.

I need to do it like display like,

|___d1__|___d2__|___d3__| |___d4__|___d5__|___d6__| |___d7__|___d8__|___d9__| 

Where d1-d9 would be the data stored on mysql database with delimiter ‘,’ in one table.

Thanks for helping me.

Answer 1

You can turn the comma separated values from your data column into an array using the explode() function:

<?php   $result = mysql_query('SELECT rows, columns, data from table_name where id=1');   $record = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);    $rows = $record['rows'];   $columns = $record['columns'];    $data = explode(',' , $record['data']);    if (sizeof($data) != $rows * $columns) die('invalid data'); ?> 

To display the table, you need two nested for-loops:

<table> <?php for ($row = 0; $row < $rows; $row++) : ?>     <tr>     <?php for ($column = 0; $column < $columns; $column++) : ?>         <td>             <?php echo $data[$row * $columns + $column]; ?>         </td>     <?php endfor ?>     </tr> <?php endfor ?> </table>