Inserting rows incrementally in table?

[adamata]

OK, odd question.

I have a table that gets generated from a sql query. that all works fine. I made a row header (name, title, info, etc) that gets created before my printf statement to display my table data.

what I want to do is repeat that header for every 5 records that are displayed. right now I am doing it in a very ugly manner and I am sure it could be better.

I set a variable, and during the while loop I check it to see if it matches 5,10, 15, 20, etc and if so, it re-print the header and continue.

Ugly, I know, but I dont know how to tell that IF statment to check every multiple of 5.

Any ideas? Is it so obvious I cannot see it?

Thanks!
-Tony

[obrienkev]

Simply increment in the loop by 5...

// display records
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
   echo $row['header'];
   // Increment by 5
   ++5;
}

Let me know if this helps.

[laserlight]

I dont know how to tell that IF statment to check every multiple of 5

Use the modulo operator, e.g. ($num % 5 == 0)

[adamata]

laserlight wrote:

Use the modulo operator, e.g. ($num % 5 == 0)

Brilliant, thank you!

I knew it was something like this. Just under my nose.