Alternating row colors with PHP and mySQL - Let's Do It

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First off, let's get some data from our database. Let's assume we have a table called mytable with 3 fields: name, phonenumber, and age.

<?php $db = mysql_connect("host","username","password") or die("Problem connecting"); mysql_select_db("dbname") or die("Problem selecting database"); $query = "SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY name"; $result = mysql_query($query) or die ("Query failed"); //let's get the number of rows in our result so we can use it in a for loop $numofrows = mysql_num_rows($result); ?>

Ok, we have our data from our database. Now we just need to open up our table and run a for loop for as many rows as we have and display the data. Then, we close the table.

<?php echo "&lt;TABLE BORDER=\"1\"&gt;\n"; echo "&lt;TR bgcolor=\"lightblue\"&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Name&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Phone&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Age&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;\n"; for($i = 0; $i &lt; $numofrows; $i++) {     $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); //get a row from our result set     if($i % 2) { //this means if there is a remainder         echo "&lt;TR bgcolor=\"yellow\"&gt;\n";     } else { //if there isn't a remainder we will do the else         echo "&lt;TR bgcolor=\"white\"&gt;\n";     }     echo "&lt;TD&gt;".$row['name']."&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;".$row['phonenumber']."&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;".$row['age']."&lt;/TD&gt;\n";     echo "&lt;/TR&gt;\n"; } //now let's close the table and be done with it echo "&lt;/TABLE&gt;\n"; ?>

That's it. Really. That's all there is to it. It's so simple that it is amazing. Now, get out there and fancy your tables up!

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