VERY simple 'while' problem

[da_marek]

hello its me again...
i have a little problem with while loops so i would be very thankful if someone would help me. what i need is this:
i want to give to the user an option to select how much table to create on the page and every table must have 4 input tags with same name but different numbers. for example:
if user selects number 1 the output must be similar to this:

<table>
<h1>1. event:</h1><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="first_input1" TYPE="text" SIZE="30"><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="second_input1" TYPE="text" SIZE="30"><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="third_input1" TYPE="text" SIZE="30"><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="fourth_input1" TYPE="text" SIZE="30">
</table>

and if user selects number 2 the output must be like this:

<table>
<h1>1. event:</h1><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="fisrt_input1" TYPE="text" SIZE="30"><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="second_input1" TYPE="text" SIZE="30"><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="third_input1" TYPE="text" SIZE="30"><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="fourth_input1" TYPE="text" SIZE="30">
</table>
<br><br>
<table>
<h1>2. event:</h1><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="first_input2" TYPE="text" SIZE="30"><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="second_input2" TYPE="text" SIZE="30"><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="third_input2" TYPE="text" SIZE="30"><br>
some stuff: <INPUT NAME="fourth_input2" TYPE="text" SIZE="30">
</table>

i know that this can be done with while loop very easy but im not very good with that (yeah, i really am lame newbie 🙂))) and it would take a whole night to code that so please someone help me!!!

[YappyDog]

I'd use a for loop instead of a while loop

$max = 3;
for ($i=1;$i<=$max;$i++) {
echo "<table><h1>$i. event:</h1><br>" .
"some stuff: <INPUT NAME=\"first_input$i\" TYPE=\"text\" SIZE=\"30\"><br>" .
"some stuff: <INPUT NAME=\"second_input$i\" TYPE=\"text\" SIZE=\"30\"><br>" .
"some stuff: <INPUT NAME=\"third_input$i\" TYPE=\"text\" SIZE=\"30\"><br>" .
"some stuff: <INPUT NAME=\"fourth_input$i\" TYPE=\"text\" SIZE=\"30\"></table>";

if ($i > 1)
echo "<br><br>";
}

[da_marek]

yeah thats similar to what i needed...
the only difference is that
$max = 3;
must be
$max = $number_that_user_defines

everything is just kewl 🙂))

thanks!