bgcolor, alternating

[Anon]

All,

I haven't seen this topic in the archives:  how do I generate an HTML table that has "alternating row colors?"  In other words, I'd like every odd-numbered row to have a grey background, every even-numbered row to have a white background.
I was able to setup Apache/PHP4/Oracle8.1.7 on a Mandrake8.0 Linux box -- thanks for the documentation!  I'm also able to retrieve info from Oracle (using OCI functions) & display it as a dynamically-generated table.  I just want to make the table "pretty" and more readable (hence, the need for alternating bgcolors).  Please help!

-- Todd

[mithril]

Todd,

That's pretty simple🙂 Simply do the following:

 <?php
  $rowCol1 = "#CCCCCC";
  $rowCol2 ="#DDDDDD";
  $col = $rowCol1

  echo "<table>\n";

  while (// something to loop through dataset) {

    echo "<tr bgcolor=\"$col\">\n<td">\n Row Data Here </td>\n</tr>\n";

    $col == $rowCol1 ? $col = $rowCol2 : $col = $rowCol1;
  }

  echo "</table>\n";

 ?>

HTH.

geoff