Question

I have a table called “Names”, it contains about 400 inputs.
I want for every 50 names to be in one div.

<div id="1">name1, name2, ... name50</div>
<div id="2">name51,name52, ... name100</div> and so on ...

Any help?

Answer 1

This is easily achieved using the following script (hopefully I skipped the syntax errors):

<?php
    //Get the names
    $names_res = mysql_query("SELECT names FROM Names");

    //Set a counter
    $counter = 0;

    //Loop over the names
    while( $name_arr = mysql_fetch_assoc($names_res) )

        //Let's see now...
        if( ($counter % 50 == 0) || $counter == 0  ) 
            echo '<div id="', ( ($counter == 0)? 1 : ($counter/50)+1 ) , '">';    

        //Output the name
        echo $name_array['name'] , ( ($counter % 49 === 0 )? '' : ', ' );

        //Close the div if neccesary
        if( ($counter % 49 == 0) || $counter == 0 ) echo '</div>';

        //Yes, we do want to increment it
        $i++;
    }
?>

Good luck!