Question

I am not understanding I have this right now is the tables for html will work with PHP or are they different. I understand how to do tables in HTML with the CSS but I am not to sure with PHP. I am new to PHP and this might be a stupid question to most of you. I am just hoping someone can explain so I have a better understanding of it.

I am still not understanding how to display something in a table.

Answer 1

The browser only reads html.

PHP is a programing language, interpreted by the server, used to generate html that the browser reads.

That said there are no such thing as PHP tables. Just do a table the normal way. Take a look at the example bellow that uses PHP to create a “dynamic” table. Now imagine that the $animals gets pulled from a database…

Example:
my-table-generator.php

<?php
$animals = array("dog", "cat", "duck");
?>

<table>
   <tr>
   <?php
       foreach($animals as $animal) 
       {
          echo "<td>".$animal."</td>";
       }
   ?>
   </tr>
</table>