[RESOLVED] Confusion with two while loops presented in echoed table

[Tezread]

Maybe it's friday fever but this is properyl doing my head in. All Im trying to do is have the below echoed in a tablw with two columns. One for activities the other for areas of expertise. Ive tried a solution but just get an table where a column is created for every object. Here is my code of old:

<?php 

echo '<form name="searchform" method="POST" action="sourcesofhelp_intermediary.php">'; 
echo ' 
<table> 
<tr> 
<td>Select the support activities:</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td>'; 
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($activity_result)) { 
//foreach($activity_array as $activity){ 
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="activity_checkbox[]" value="'.$row['supportactivity_id'].'">'.$row['supportactivity'].''; 
} 

echo ('</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td>Select the areas of areas of expertise:</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td>'); 

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($expert_result)) { 
//foreach($activity_array as $activity){ 
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="expert_checkbox[]" value="'.$row['expert_id'].'">'.$row['expert'].''; 
}


echo ('</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td> 
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search"> 
</td> 
</tr> 
</table>'); 

echo '</form>'; 
      ?>

many thanks in advance

[sneakyimp]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'object' but i see that you have each fetch_assoc loop surrounded by <tr> tags. <tr> tags surround each row. If you want the two loops to be in the same table row, you'll need to take out some of the <tr> tags.

You'll also need to list all your headers (e.g., 'Select the areas of areas of expertise') before you get around to listing your data.

in other words

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Column 1</td>
    <td>Column 2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
 <?
  // loop 1 for column 1...output ALL checkboxes
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result1)) {
    echo '<input type="checkbox">blah blah blah';
  }
?>
    </td>
    <td>
<?
  // loop 2 for column 2...output ALL checkboxes
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result2)) {
    echo '<input type="checkbox">blah blah blah';
  }
?>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>