RE: [PHP] RE: newbie alternate row colours in dynamic table

Wow you guys are going about that way more complicated than it needs to be: $i = 0; echo "<TR BGCOLOR='#". (($i++ % 2 == 0) ? "'E3E3E3" : "FFFFFF") .."'>"; Then it just alternates and takes care of itself (plus you get a nice little index counter as well as a bonus if you want to use $i DÆVID. "A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but a true friend will be sitting next to you in the holding cell, laughing and saying -'That was fucking awesome!'" > -----Original Message----- > From: Bobby Rahman [mailto:bobby_rahman2002@hotmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 2:09 PM > To: chayes@antenna.nl; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] RE: newbie alternate row colours in dynamic table > > > > > Hiya people > > After a lot of soul searching, exploring the web and help > from many people I > came up with this simple solution: > > Thank you Chris for explaining the toggle $colorset. In the > end I decided > this made life alot simplier. > > (clearly the brackets have to be correctly aligned) > > while( $row = mysql_fetch_array($db_result) ) > { > echo(" > <tr $c> > <td>" . $row['bugid'] . "</td> > </tr> > "); > if ( !isset($c) ) > { > $c = "bgcolor=#9999FF"; > echo $c; > } > else > { > unset($c); > } > } > > > > > >From: Chris Hayes <chayes@antenna.nl> > >To: php-general@lists.php.net > >Subject: Re: [PHP] RE: newbie alternate row colours in dynamic table > >Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 22:32:17 +0200 > > > >At 22:14 5-4-2003, you wrote: > > > > > >>Hiya I have a dynamic table and am trying to get the rows to be two > >>different alternate colours. well Ive looked at a couple of > snippets of > >>this colour code and previous mails regarding this. Im having major > >>troubles intergrating any of these suggestions with my > code. Can anyone > >>suggest where I am going wrong. Main problems are > >>1. where to put the loop for changing the colour > (complicated due to the > >>loop retrieving data from db)i.e in the do loop....in the > while loop? > >Within the loop that prints the rows, whcih is usually a > while loop. But > >that depends on your preferences. > > > > > >>2. Also how to echo my rows in the colours.(something like > this I think) > >>print "<tr bgcolor='$trcolor'>"$db_fetch['bugid']; > >>?></td>; > >> > >> > >>e.g here is the code snippet for alternate coloured rows > >>$trcolor="#F0F8FF"; > >>while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ > >>$colorset=0; > >>if ($trcolor=='#F0F8FF'){ > >>$trcolor='#B0C4DE'; > >>$colorset=1; > >>} > >>if ($colorset==0){ > >>if ($trcolor=='#B0C4DE'){ > >>$trcolor='#F0F8FF';} > >>} > >>print "<tr bgcolor='$trcolor'>"; > >>} > >I see that you are using a helping variable $colorset. > >I have a problem reading your code in email, as i do not see > hte indents > >well, so i restructure it here with _ underscores to make > the indents > >survive the email program. > > > > > >$trcolor="#F0F8FF"; //1 > > > >while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) > >{ > >___$colorset=0; > >___if ($trcolor=='#F0F8FF') //1 > >___{$trcolor='#B0C4DE'; //2 > >____$colorset=1; > >___} > > > >___if ($colorset==0) > >___{ if ($trcolor=='#B0C4DE') //2 > >______{$trcolor='#F0F8FF'; //1 > >______} > >___} > > > >print "<tr bgcolor='$trcolor'>"; > >} > > > >Lets walk through. > >In the 1st walk, > >1a) you enter with color#1 and colorset=0. > >2b) the first 'if' then sets it to color#2 and colorset=1 > >3c) The second if sees that both conditions are true and set > the color back > >to color#1. > > > >So the first row prints color1. > > > >Ok. The code remembers the values, which are color#1 and colorset1. > >In the next walkthrough, > >2a) the colorset is set to 0 to start with. > >At this moment you have the exact situation as with 1a). > > > >do you see that? it would be much easier to see what is > happening if you > >would have only colorset toggling its value and just before > printing, > >decide what the color is as a result of the value of colorset. > >Give it a try! > > > >Basically: > > > >$colorset=0; > > > >while (....) > >{ toggle collorset (toggle: if 1 then 0 and opposite) > > if colorser=0 color=ffffff else color=aaaaa > > print color. > >} > > > >Chris Hayes > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Surf together with new Shared Browsing > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/browse&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID > =74&DI=1059 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >