Alternating Row Colors

mdub2112

Yes, I have ANOTHER among the oh so many posts regarding this topic...
I've searched forums all over and FINALLY found a way that seems to ALMOST work for me.

Of course...I have a table. Within the table I have three columns
One row per column.

My Code
Above my While Statement I have

$color1 = "#FFFFFF";
$color2 = "#E3D9CA";
$row_count = 0;

Within my While Code I have

while ($emp = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
$fullname = $emp['first_name']." ".$emp['last_name'];
$row_color = ($row_count % 2) ? $color1 : $color2;

// Start Display
echo '</tr><tr>';
echo '<td width="275" bgcolor=$row_color nowrap>' . $fullname . '</td>';
echo '<td width="275" bgcolor=$row_color nowrap>' . $emp['title'] . '</td>';
echo '<td width="275" bgcolor=$row_color norwrap>' . $emp['ext'] . '</td>';

// VCard has been uploaded
if ($emp['vcard'])
{
echo "<td width='100' bgcolor=$row_color nowrap><a href='{$emp['vcard']}' target='_blank'><img src='../images/vcard.gif'</a></td>";
}
$row_count++;
}
echo '</tr></table>';

Now, when I display in the browser the first three columns all show up black (even though that's not one of the two alternating colors. That 4th row within that IF statement comes out exactly what I was lookin' for. In the words of Jerry Seinfield "What's Up With THAT?".

Sorry I placed the code right in the post, wasn't sure how to get in those blocks that ppl seem to use in many posts

matt72

On these three lines

echo '<td width="275" bgcolor=$row_color nowrap>' . $fullname . '</td>';
echo '<td width="275" bgcolor=$row_color nowrap>' . $emp['title'] . '</td>';
echo '<td width="275" bgcolor=$row_color norwrap>' . $emp['ext'] . '</td>';

the $row_color variable is in a string surrounded by single quotes, so it's not parsed as a variable. Variables are only parsed in a string if they're inside double quotes.

View the source of the html that's output by the script and you'll see what I mean.

To make a block of php code in the forum add [php ] [/ php] tags around it (without the spaces).

mdub2112

Thank You !!
Some reason I knew it was going to be something I just kept NOT even taking a look at.

MichaelHe

A very easy way to make alternating colors is like this.

Wihtin your WHILE statement your type.

if ($color == "E3D9CA") {$color = "FFFFFF";} else {$color = "E3D9CA";}
echo '<td width="275" bgcolor=$color nowrap>' . $fullname . '</td>';
echo '<td width="275" bgcolor=$color nowrap>' . $emp['title'] . '</td>';
echo '<td width="275" bgcolor=$color norwrap>' . $emp['ext'] . '</td>';

This way the color will change everytime it runs thru the WHILE statement.