Tables Problem

neroag

Hi All

Im trying to get the following to work so as to have the output in a table in the form of 1 2 3 4 5 ....
at the moment it will only display in the format .....
1 22 333 4444 55555 etc etc

$num = 5;
$i=0;
echo '<table cols="2" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" align="center" width="100%">' . "\n";
while ($i < $num) {
$photoname= ("$filenames, $i");
if ($i % 3 == 0){

echo '<tr>' . "\n";
}
echo '<td> $photoname </td>' ."\n";

$i++;
if ($i % 3 == 0){
echo '</tr>' . "\n";
}
}
echo "</table>";

Thanks again

subwayman

I am sorry but your question is confusing when looking at your code.

Your code outputs filenames, not numbers
It's set up to output a table with three columns but the table tag says 2.

Perhaps you can tell us what html you want to output and we can put you right.

neroag

sorry yes the output is pictures the layout i want is pic1 pic2 pic3 pic4 but at the moment im getting pic1 pic2 pic2 pic3 pic3 pic3 pic4 pic4 pic4 pic4 etc

thanx

subwayman

echo '<td> $photoname </td>' ."\n";

$photoname is not parsed in this echo because it is in single quotes. Try:

echo "<td> $photoname </td>\n";

neroag

Thanx but unfortunally it didnt help i still keep getting
1 x picture 1 - 2x picture 2 - 3x picture 3 etc,
i know its something so simple but can i hell see it lol

subwayman

Well I have run this code on my server and it works fine. If $filenames has 'abc' I get:

abc, 0 abc, 1 abc, 2
abc, 3 abc, 4

What have you got in $filenames? What context does this code run in?

neroag

$filenames is at the end of a path to the photos and is the photo name itself
ie /var/www/......../$filenames
so im using echo "<td><img src=\"/var/www/....../$filenames\" width=129 height=160></td>";

what im trying to do is get is all the photo's in a directory to display in a table 5 wide and however many down depending on the number of photo's in the directory
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
etc etc

subwayman

So the code you posted is not the actual code you are having problems with?

neroag

Yes it is the actual code apart from the echo line which i have given but for me it only returns

Picture 1
Picture 2 picture 2
picture 3 picture 3 picture 3

etc etc

I does display ALL the pictures but only in the above manner
not
picture 1 picture 2 picture 3

which im trying to acheive

Rodney_H_

neroag wrote:
what im trying to do is get is all the photo's in a directory to display in a table 5 wide and however many down depending on the number of photo's in the directory
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
etc etc

I think you can do something like this:

<?php /* I think this might work */ ?>
<table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" align="center" width="100%">
<tr>
<?php
// put filenames in array, with index/key '1' at start:
$filenames = array(1=>'one','two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six','seven','eight','nine','ten','eleven','twelve','thirteen','fourteen','fifteen');
$i = 1;
while ($i <= count($filenames)) {
	$photoname = ($filenames[$i] . ', ' . $i);
		echo '<td>' . $photoname . '</td>' . "\n";
		if ($i % 5 == 0){ // 5
			echo '</tr>' . "\n" . '<tr>' . "\n";
		}
	$i++;
}
?>
</tr>
</table>