Question

Hi I have been using this code to fetch data from mysql database and displaying it in column format i.e

a 
b
c

What i want is to show 4 names per row i.e

a b c d

e f g....

Can anybody help me in this regard

Thankyou.

Here is my code

<?php

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Persons");

echo "<table border='1'>";

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
    echo "<tr>";
    echo "<td>" . $row['Name'] . "</td>";
    echo "</tr>";
}

echo "</table>";

mysql_close($con);
?>

Answer 1

Use modulus operator %

$i = 0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
   $i++;
   if ($i % 4 == 0) {
      echo "<tr>";
   }
   echo "<td>" . $row['Name'] . "</td>";
   if ($i % 4 == 0) {
      echo "</tr>";
   }
}

As a bonus, you’ve got syntax error in your code. Look at this line

echo "<table border='1'>;

which
should be

echo "<table border='1'>";