Question

I am a few stages further in learning PHP but I have come to another annoying pit stop. I have a really simple bit of code that retrieves book items from my database. I am displaying them in an html table however because it is a loop, if I use the th tags for table header I get a header above every single data item!

Here is my code extract: (as you can see I have put my th tags as comments as that doesn’t work)

<table border="0">
<br />
<?php
$count = 0;
while ($count < $numrow)
{
    $row = mysql_fetch_array($results);
    extract($row);

    echo "<tr>";

    //echo "<tr>";
    //echo "<th>";
    //echo "Book Title";
    //echo "</th>";
    //echo "<th>";
    //echo "Book Author";
    //echo "</th>";
    //echo "<th>";
    //echo "Book Publisher";
    //echo "</th>";
    //echo "<th>";
    //echo "Book ISBN";
    //echo "</th>";
    //echo "</tr>";

    echo "<td>";
    echo "<a href='addtolist.php?     bookname=".$bookname."&bookauthor=".$bookauthor."&bookpub=".$bookpub."&bookisbn=".$bookisbn."'>[+]</a>";

    echo "</td>";

    echo "<td>";
    echo $bookname;
    echo "</td>";

    echo "<td>";
    echo $bookauthor;
    echo "</td>";

    echo "<td>";
    echo $bookpub;
    echo "</td>";

    echo "<td>";
    echo $bookisbn;
    echo "</td>";

    echo "<td>";
    echo "<a href='deletecd.php?bookname=".$bookname."'>Delete</a>";
        echo "</td>";

    echo "</tr>";

    $count = $count + 1;

}
?>

Answer 1

Move those echos out of your loop. Also, you shouldn’t have a <br /> directly inside of a <table> tag.