Re: putting a list of data into 3 columns?

This is exactly what I sent you. You have to realize that you can't print down one column, and then start a new one. You have to print across, left to right before you go down. You have to modify the print statement to put it into a table, but that is easy: Print should be: printf("<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>",$items[$i],$items[$i+3], $items[$i+6]); That will print your 3 columns in a table. And it is essentially identical to to what I sent. Just have to modify the format of the printf statement. You can also do it in a regular print statement: Print("<tr><td>$items[$i]</td><td>$items[$i+3]</td><td>$items[$i+6]</td></tr >\n"); Or how about a here doc for php4 Print <<EOF <tr><td>$items[$i]</td><td>$items[$i+3]</td><td>$items[$i+6]</td></tr>\n EOF The for loop stays the same, only the print statement changes. Lindsay Adams --- On 4/7/01 4:55 PM, "DRN" <donaldrnoble@NOSPAM.yahoo.com> wrote: > > Lindsay Adams <lindsay@dingos.net> wrote in message > news:B6F4B5D1.46A0%lindsay@dingos.net... > | Assuming your items are in an array > | $items =array() //assume a bunch of items in this array > | For($i = 0; $i< (count($items)/3); $i +=1){ > | printf("%s\t%s\t%s",$items[$i],$items[$i+3],$items[$i+6]); > | } > | > | Should print 3 columns of tab separated text. > | Note: typed this quickly, untested, but the theory is sound. Might > have to > | twiddle the $i<(count... Section. > | > | If you have 8 itesm, as shown and you divide by 3 you get 2.xx > | So, the the loop will print out: > | > | $items[0] $items[3] $items[6] > | $items[1] $items[4] $items[7] > | $items[2] $items[5] $items[8} > | // because $items[8] doesn't exist, it won't print. > | // if it spits out an error there, put a @in front of printf to turn > off > | error reporting. > | > | > | On 4/7/01 11:58 AM, "Jack Dempsey" <dempsejn@georgetown.edu> wrote: > | > | > You don't need to count...in your loop you can do something like > this: > | > if($current_pos%3==0){ //then you're at a multiple of three > | > //code to start new column here > | > } > | > > | > -jack > | > > > Neither of these were quite what I was looking for, I was hoping I > could make a table with 3 <td>'s side by side, each having a third of > the list of products (with <br> between them). > Is this possible? If not I will try to adapt one of these methods. > > Cheers for your help, Donald > >