Question

I’m having a particularly interesting problem. Perhaps my “don’t remember the last time I slept” logic is failing…

Anyway, I’m grabbing a list of users from a database table and want to stick it in an HTML table. This works perfect:

$table->construct_header( $lang->username );

while ( $user = $db->fetch_array( $user_query ) )
{
    $link = '<a href="'.$settings[ 'url' ].'/'.get_profile_link( $user[ 'uid' ] ).'" target="_blank">'.$user[ 'username' ].'</a>';
    $table->construct_cell( $link );
    $table->construct_row();
}

However, I want to have three columns. Naturally, I tried this:

$table->construct_header( $lang->username );
$table->construct_header( $lang->username );
$table->construct_header( $lang->username );

while ( $user = $db->fetch_array( $user_query ) )
{
    $static $i = 1;
    if ( $i <= 3 )
    {
        $link = '<a href="'.$settings[ 'url' ].'/'.get_profile_link( $user[ 'uid' ] ).'" target="_blank">'.$user[ 'username' ].'</a>';
        $table->construct_cell( $link );
    }
    else
    {
        $table->construct_row();
        $i = 1;
    }
}

Except nothing gets outputted now. Is there some glaring issue I’m not seeing? I basically need to insert a username into three consecutive columns (straight across) and then generate that row and start again.

Answer 1

Here’s the basic approach I typically use:

$i = 0;
echo '<table><tbody><tr>';
while ( $user = $db->fetch_array( $user_query ) ) {
    if ($i && $i%3 == 0) echo '</tr><tr>';
    $i++;
    echo '<td><a href="'.$settings[ 'url' ].'/'.get_profile_link( $user[ 'uid' ] ).'" target="_blank">'.$user[ 'username' ].'</a></td>';
}
echo '</tr></tbody></table>';

I’m not familiar with MyBB’s table class, but this will likely work:

$table->construct_header( $lang->username );
$table->construct_header( $lang->username );
$table->construct_header( $lang->username );

$i = 0;
while ( $user = $db->fetch_array( $user_query ) ) {
    if ($i && $i%3 == 0) $table->construct_row();
    $i++;
    $table->construct_cell( '<a href="'.$settings[ 'url' ].'/'.get_profile_link( $user[ 'uid' ] ).'" target="_blank">'.$user[ 'username' ].'</a>' );
}
$table->construct_row();