Question

Ok, right now I trying to get a list to echo out from mysql using a while loop, but as you can see here http://institute4se.com/plan/ it’s echoing in the wrong order. Why?

The reason for the if statements is to make the top and bottom pieces of the div echo only when the loop reaches the beginning of a new subsection.

If I remove the if statement the list echos out in order but then the beginning and end of the div echo every loop.

You can see my database aka $info here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/QMO2X.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/RsHdb.png

Any thoughts on how to fix it?

 while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data )) 
 {

if($info['subsection']=='0'){
echo "
<div class='menuSection'>
<div class='sectionHeader' id='header".$info['section']."'><img src='images/status_circ_empty.gif' alt='Section Empty' /><a href='index.php?s=".$info['section']."&ss=".$info['subsection']."'>".$titleArr[$info['section']]."</a><img src='images/arrow_".$currentArrow.".gif' alt='Arrow' class='arrow' /></div>
    <ul class='sectionSubmenu' id='section".$info['section']."' style='display:".$currentSection."'>
"; 
}
else{
echo "<li><img src='images/status_circ_empty.gif' alt='Section Empty' /><a href='index.php?s=".$info['section']."&ss=".$info['subsection']."'>".$info['title']."</a></li>"; 
}
if($info['subsection']=='0'){
echo"
    </ul>
</div>
";
}
}

Answer 1

Here is the fixed code for anyone who is interested:

while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data )) 
{ 

    // if the current subsection is a new section
    if($info['subsection']==0){
    // if the current section is NOT the first section
    if($info['section']!=0){
    // end the section div
    echo "
            </ul>
    </div>
    ";
    }

    // start the section div and add the section header
    echo "
    <div class='menuSection'>
    <div class='sectionHeader' id='header".$info['section']."'><img src='images/status_circ_empty.gif' alt='Section Empty' /><a href='index.php?s=".$info['section']."&ss=".$info['subsection']."'>".$titleArr[$info['section']]."</a><img src='images/arrow_".$currentArrow.".gif' alt='Arrow' class='arrow' /></div>
        <ul class='sectionSubmenu' id='section".$info['section']."' style='display:".$currentSection."'>
        <li><img src='images/status_circ_empty.gif' alt='Section Empty' /><a href='index.php?s=".$info['section']."&ss=".$info['subsection']."'>".$info['title']."</a></li>

    ";

    }
    // if the current section is not a new section
    else{
        // add the next submenu item
        echo "<li><img src='images/status_circ_empty.gif' alt='Section Empty' /><a href='index.php?s=".$info['section']."&ss=".$info['subsection']."'>".$info['title']."</a></li>"; 
    }
} 
echo"
    </ul>
</div>
";