Question

I have this table

And my goals is to have a table looking like this

The table has 8 rows and 3 columns

I have already stored the questions but I’m having a hard time printing it in this format.

Wherein after printing 4 questions it will then go to another cell and print 4 questions again and then once there are already 3 columns it will then create a new row and do the same step again.( 8 rows and 3 columns)

The questions are ordered by sequence no. [In the table below the 1st 4 questions are 1,2,3,4 and then the cell on it’s right are 6,7,8,9 and so on….]

I’m stuck with this for almost 8 hours already….

Here’s my current code:

select = "SELECT q.QuestionID, q.QuestionText, q.m, q.l, q.GroupNo, q.SequenceNo FROM question2 q Order By q.SequenceNo";
$result = mysql_query($select);
$question_id = "";
$question_text = "";
$question_m = "";
$question_l = "";
$question_group = "";
//$table = "<table border='1' cellspacing='1'>";
$count_row = 0;
$array = array();
//$count_column = 0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
    $question_id = $row['QuestionID'];
    $question_text = $row['QuestionText'];
    $question_m = $row['m'];
    $question_l = $row['l'];
    $question_group = $row['GroupNo'];
    $question_sequence = $row['SequenceNo'];

    if($count_row > 2)
    {
        $array[] .= "</div>";   
    }

    $array[] .= "<div style='border=1px';'>";
    $array[] .= $question_text ."<br/>";
    $count_row++;
}

$table .= "</table>";
echo $table;

Sir/Ma’am your answers would be of great help. Thank you++

Answer 1

I am not sure I fully understand the question but you could try this. I believe it will give you the output you want.

$row_count = 0;
echo "<table border=1>";

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

    if($row_count%12 == 0) {
    echo "<tr>";
    }

    if($row_count%4 == 0) {
    echo "<td>";
    }

    echo $row['QuestionText']."<br>";

    if($row_count%4 == 3) {
    echo "</td>";
    }
    if($row_count%12 == 11) {
    echo "</tr>";
    }
    $row_count++;

}
echo "</table>";

It should give you an output that looks like this:

<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>0<br>1<br>2<br>3<br></td>
<td>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br></td>
<td>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br></td>
<td>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br></td>
<td>20<br>21<br>22<br>23<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24<br>25<br>26<br>27<br></td>
<td>28<br>29<br>30<br>31<br></td>
<td>32<br>33<br>34<br>35<br></td>
</tr>
...
</table>