Using templates to display rows and columns

[Timsmr2]

Hi,

I am currently building my first website using the PHPLIB Template system. The website will display information about mobile(cell) phones and some info on network deals.

I am currently trying to make a page that will display all phones by maunfacture.

What im trying to achieve is to setup the template to put a header for each manufacture followed by a row of 4 phone images and then start a new row of 4 images and continue until all phones made by that manufacture are displayed then for that to happen for all manfuactures.

The problem is that i dont know enough about templates to do this i can make a series of rows or columns with one phone on each but not together.

below is my function so far

function get_allphones()
{

$t = new Template("_templates/modules");
$t->set_file("content", "allphones.php");
$t->set_block("content", "allphone_row", "allphone_rows");
$t->set_block("content", "allphones", "show_allphones");


$Result = @ mysql_query(sprintf("SELECT * FROM Makes WHERE Display='Y' ORDER BY SortOrder"));
while($Row = @ mysql_fetch_object($Result))
{
  $MakeID = $Row->ID;
  $Make = $Row->Name; 
  $t->set_var("MAKEIMAGE", $Row->Image);


  $PhoneResult = @ mysql_query(sprintf("SELECT * FROM Model WHERE Display='Y' AND MakeID=%s", $MakeID));
  while($PhoneRow = @ mysql_fetch_object($PhoneResult))
  {
  $PhoneID = $PhoneRow->ID;
  $PhoneName = $PhoneRow->Name;
  $PhoneThumb = $PhoneRow->Thumbnail;
  $t->set_var("PHONETHUMB", $PhoneThumb);
  $t->set_var("NAME", $PhoneName);

  $t->parse("allphone_rows", "allphone_row", true);
  }
$t->parse("show_allphones", "allphones");
}

$t->parse("OUTPUT", "content");
return $t->parse("OUTPUT", "content");	

}

Any help would be most appriciated

Thanx

Tim

[Jack_McSlay]

hmm this function only gets the data from the database, right? I don't know PHPLIB (nor I know enough about classes) but you could try something equivalent to this:

define ('NUM_ROWS',<number of lines you want here>);
define ('NUM_COLS',<number of columns you want here>);

echo '<TABLE BORDER = 1>';
for ($row=0;$row<NUM_ROWS;$row++){
	echo '<TR>';
	for ($col=0;$col<NUM_COLS;$col++){
		echo '<td>';
		$id = $row*NUM_COLS + $col;
		echo $id;

	echo '</td>';
}
echo '</TR>';
}
echo '</TABLE>';

this generates a table with numbers in ascending order, then you may just replace the "echo $id" with the content you want on each cell, using the $id variable as reference