[RESOLVED] Reading SimpleXML output 2-column table

[mrbaseball34]

I need some code that will take a SimpleXML object and format the contents in a two column table layout:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstring);

foreach ($xml->children() as $user) {
  // Not sure what I need to do here to get the 2-column format?
}

This is some demo XML:

<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<users>
  <user>
    <company>Company #1</company>
    <url />
    <firstname>John</firstname>
    <lastname>Doe</lastname>
    <email>[e-mail]</email>
    <address>Company1 Address</address>
    <city>Company1 City</city>
    <state>Company1State</state>
    <zip>99999</zip>
    <country>US</country>
    <phone>[phone]</phone>
    <fax />
    <comments />
  </user>
  <user>
    <company>Company #2</company>
    <url />
    <firstname>John</firstname>
    <lastname>Doe</lastname>
    <email>[e-mail]</email>
    <address>Company2 Address</address>
    <city>Company2 City</city>
    <state>Company2State</state>
    <zip>99999</zip>
    <country>US</country>
    <phone>[phone]</phone>
    <fax />
    <comments />
  </user>
  <user>
    <company>Company #3</company>
    <url>http://www.company3.com</url>
    <firstname>John</firstname>
    <lastname>Doe</lastname>
    <email>[e-mail]</email>
    <address>Company3 Address</address>
    <city>Company3 City</city>
    <state>Company3State</state>
    <zip>99999</zip>
    <country>US</country>
    <phone>[phone]</phone>
    <fax>[phone]</fax>
    <comments />
  </user>
  <user>
    <company>Company #4</company>
    <url />
    <firstname>John</firstname>
    <lastname>Doe</lastname>
    <email>[e-mail]</email>
    <address>Company4 Address</address>
    <city>Company4 City</city>
    <state>Company4State</state>
    <zip>99999</zip>
    <country>US</country>
    <phone>[phone]</phone>
    <fax />
    <comments />
  </user>
  <user>
    <company>Company #4</company>
    <url />
    <firstname>John</firstname>
    <lastname>Doe</lastname>
    <email>[e-mail]</email>
    <address>Company4 Address</address>
    <city>Company4 City</city>
    <state>Company4State</state>
    <zip>99999</zip>
    <country>US</country>
    <phone>[phone]</phone>
    <fax>[phone]</fax>
    <comments>Company5 Comments Here</comments>
  </user>
</users>

This is how I want it to look:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr> <!-- Company Name -->
    <td>Company #1</td>
    <td>Company #2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- URL -->
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- First Name -->
    <td>John</td>
    <td>John</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Last Name -->
    <td>Doe</td>
    <td>Doe</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Email -->
    <td>[e-mail]</td>
    <td>[e-mail]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Addess -->
    <td>Company1 Address</td>
    <td>Company2 Address</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- City -->
    <td>Company1 City</td>
    <td>Company2 City</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- State -->
    <td>Company1State</td>
    <td>Company2State</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Zip -->
    <td>99999</td>
    <td>99999</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- ****ry -->
    <td>US</td>
    <td>US</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Phone -->
    <td>[phone]</td>
    <td>[phone]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Fax -->
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Comments -->
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Company Name -->
    <td>Company #3</td>
    <td>Company #4</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- URL -->
    <td>http://www.company3.com<</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- First Name -->
    <td>John</td>
    <td>John</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Last Name -->
    <td>Doe</td>
    <td>Doe</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Email -->
    <td>[e-mail]</td>
    <td>[e-mail]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Addess -->
    <td>Company3 Address</td>
    <td>Company4 Address</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- City -->
    <td>Company3 City</td>
    <td>Company4 City</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- State -->
    <td>Company3State</td>
    <td>Company4State</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Zip -->
    <td>99999</td>
    <td>99999</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- ****ry -->
    <td>US</td>
    <td>US</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Phone -->
    <td>[phone]</td>
    <td>[phone]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Fax -->
    <td>[phone]</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Comments -->
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Company Name -->
    <td>Company #5</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- URL -->
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- First Name -->
    <td>John</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Last Name -->
    <td>Doe</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Email -->
    <td>[e-mail]</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Addess -->
    <td>Company5 Address</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- City -->
    <td>Company5 City</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- State -->
    <td>Company5State</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Zip -->
    <td>99999</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- ****ry -->
    <td>US</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Phone -->
    <td>[phone]</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Fax -->
    <td>[phone]</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> <!-- Comments -->
    <td>Company5 Comments Here</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

[mrbaseball34]

Ok, sorry for the confusion.

I'm creating a table in PDF using TCPDF functions. I am not doing HTML, even though the example in my original post says that is how I'd like it to look. That was just meant as an illustration of how I want the data laid out, not necessarily the means of the layout.

It is usually easier to translate a solution when you make it ubiquitous by using something that usually everyone knows. If I had originally said I needed to do this using TCPDF's Cell() and MultiCell() functions, you'd probably not even replied,
oh heck nobody replied anyway...

I KNOW that TCPDF will take a HTML table and parse it out to PDF, but I do not want that.

Here is a solution using a for loop .vs a foreach:

$xml_count = $xml->children()->count();
for($i = 0; $i<=$xml_count(); $i+=2) {
  $user  = $xml->user[$i];
  if(isset($xml->user[$i+1])) {
    $user2 = $xml->user[$i+1];
  }
  // process nodes here
}