that bugs me

[vinny199]

Hi,

something I really don't understand, maybe because I use DMX and I am only just learning more advanced "hadncoded" php, but I've seen this done many times without understanding how it's done.

I see some tables with a Repeat Region on it, hence the table unfolds showing a certain amount of records.

so far so good.

But I see some tables where the records display both lengh way and side ways at the same time.

I mean, say you want to display all the html Hex color codes and you would want to show all of them at the same time, but not just in one column making a very log page, but using a few columns and a few rows at the same time.

How is that possible?

Here is a "standard" DMX repeat reagion that duplicates rows only (or columns only, but not both at the same time:

<?php do { ?>
<table width="427" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="127"><font face="<?php echo $row_rsfonttype['fonttype']; ?>"><?php echo $row_rsfonttype['fonttype']; ?></font></td>
<td width="1">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="77"><a href="slectedfonttype.php?<?php echo $MM_keepNone.(($MM_keepNone!="")?"&":"")."FTID=".$row_rsfonttype['FTID'] ?>">select</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php } while ($row_rsfonttype = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsfonttype)); ?>

How could you make this unfold over many columns and rows?

I'd love to understand that.

Please advise if you can.

Thanks,

Vinny

[philipolson]

This faqt may help:
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8583

[vinny199]

Thanks,

That is helpful.
I have made some progress, but a bit stuck. would really apreciate if you could help further.

I am trying to display hex color codes so a user can select the color of his choice for a background color.
I would like the color codes (which I stored in a table) to display over rows and columns at the same time.

the script you pointed to makes that possible.

however, I now display the actual codes, when what I would like is each color cell to take the relevant hex code, so the user can see what color it is rather that the color number itself.

here is what I got:
<?php

$row_rshex['hcode']= 1;
while ($row_rshex = mysql_fetch_assoc($rshex)) {

      echo "\t<td bgcolor= row_rshex['hcode'];>". $row_rshex['hcode'] ."</td>\n";

if (($row_rshex['hcode']++ % 3) == false)
{
echo "</tr>\n<tr>\n";
}
}
?>

You see that <td bgcolor= row_rshex['hcode'];> was my attempt to get the color code to display itself, but rather be the background colour of the cell. that doesn't really work. it display one color over all the cells.

Can you help please?

Thank you,

Vinny