Displaying table data column-wise in a while loop

Question

I\'m attempting to retrieve all that data from a database, put it in a table (more than one table if necessary) and display them column-wise in lots of 4 split across multip

Answer 1

There's not enough information here to say whether or not you should be using a table because you provided non-data.

If we're writing a closet organization application, our data might come out of the database like this:

John | Shoes | 3
John | Pants | 10
Sally | Shoes | 12
Sally | Pants | 8
Billy | Shoes | 4
Billy | Pants | 9
Kate | Shoes | 6
Kate | Pants | 6

But we want to display it like this:

Member | Shoes | Pants
John | 3 | 10
Sally | 12 | 8
Billy | 4 | 9
Kate | 6 | 6

We would write our loop something like this:

The headers? Well, typically I would recommend looping twice and resetting the pointer, but I don't see the equivalent of mysql_data_seek or pg_result_seek for the interface you're using, so I can't help you any farther than this. Using output buffering on the first "row" of results combined with a collector variable gathering up all of the headers as an array can work without the need to reset the pointer.

If you're just wanting to spit out the results in 4 columns because you think it looks prettier and not because it expresses tabular data, using CSS columns would be the better way to go.