Script help!

[samstripy]

I need some assistance with this, as I have tried to do it and look on various php sites and it just isnt working.

I am basically making a ladder script with the table below:

Rank Name Wins Losses Win%
1 fred 2 2 50%
2 bill 1 3 25%

The entires are made up, but basically when I come to display my data in a lovely nice table it all buggers up. Either saying 'parse error on line whatver' or displays table with no records even tho they are there! I have gone through 3 tutorials even copying their examples but they are not complete and I find it hard filling in the blanks.

Anyone know a nice script to display my table nice and pretty on the screen?
Maybe with some coloured background etc....I can get it to work if I just call the data with no tables.

Thanks.

Sam.

[Mordecai]

Let's assume you have all the information in an array like this:
array[Rank] (
Name/1=>their name
Wins/2=>their wins
Losses/3=>their losses
Win/4=>their win%
)

First, count the number of rows you'll have (indices in the array "array"):
You can use count(array) to count how many indices are in array:

for ($i=0;$i<count(array);$i++) {
  echo("<tr>");
    // fields (next section)
  echo("</tr>");
}

You'd then need to count how many fields you want, unless you already know: (you could just do 5 fields)
Use count(array[$rank]) to count how many indices are in array[$rank]:

for ($i=0;$i<count(array[$rank]);$i++) {
  echo("<td>".array[$rank][$i]."</td>");
}

So, together, use something like this:

echo("<table>");
for ($tr=0;$tr<count(array);$tr++) {
  echo("<tr>");
    for ($td=0;$td<count(array[$rank]);$td++) {
      echo("<td>".array[$rank][$td]."</td>");
    }
  echo("</tr>");
}
echo("</table>");

Of course, edit this where needed. I hope this helps.