Question

I have never programmed anything in php before and haven’t touched html in 10 years. I could use some help. I am querying a postgresql database using php. I am trying to display my query results in a table format with headers like this:

first_name   last_name   employee_id
tom          jones       111
bob          barker      112
bill         davis       113

Sample code I am trying to get to work correctly:

echo("<table border=2");
while ($line = pg_fetch_array($result, null, PGSQL_ASSOC)) {
    foreach ($line as $col_value => $row_value) {
        echo("<tr><td>$col_value</td><td>$row_value</td></tr>\n");
    }
}
echo("</table>");

My formatting is being displayed like this:

first_name tom
last_name jones
employee_id 111
first_name bob
last_name barker
employee_id 112
first_name bill
last_name davis
employee_id 113

As you can see I am storing my query in an associative array.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

echo("<table border=2><tr><td>first_name</td><td>last_name</td><td>employee_id</td></tr>");
while ($line = pg_fetch_array($result, null, PGSQL_ASSOC)) {
    echo("<tr>");
    foreach ($line as $col_value => $row_value) {
        echo("<td>$row_value</td>");
    }
    echo("</tr>\n");
}
echo("</table>");

Or:

echo("<table border=2><tr><td>first_name</td><td>last_name</td><td>employee_id</td></tr>");
while ($line = pg_fetch_array($result, null, PGSQL_ASSOC)) {
    echo("<tr><td>".$line[0]."</td><td>".$line[1]."</td><td>".$line[2]."</td></tr>\n");
}
echo("</table>");