PHP function round();

[cd34]

generally I use modulo or % to do this.

basically, set your $loop = 0;

if ($loop % 7) { print "</tr><td>" }

$loop modulo 7 = 0 when there is no remainder, i.e., the column is divisible by 7 (or if the loop is 0) You need to do some special case handling for 0, and some end of loop processing if there aren't a multiple of 7 columns in your result set.

The reason for your extra column is probably that you started loop at 1, and are dividing by 7, which gives you a first blank column -- then things should realign themselves unless there is something else I'm not seeing. From what you posted, you should get 6 columns in the first row, 7 in each successive row.

Another way is to use an indexed array and use two for loops...

print "<table>";
for ($loop=0;loop<$numcols;loop+=7) {
  print "<tr>";
  for ($loop2=$loop;$loop2<$loop+7;$loop2++) {
    print "<td>asdfa</td>";
  }
  print "</tr>";
}
print "</table>";

Many different ways to handle tabular data.... and they all boil down to a simple control-break structure.

[Barron]

Your right, I may end up changing the routine to a nested loop of some kind to catch the end of the list.

Your example brings to mind something I've been wanting to ask someone for a long time.

I read a post on php.net about 2 years ago I think, where some guy benchmarked, do, for, foreach and while. The slowest was for when it came to speed and do being the fastest. If I remember correctly do is 60% faster than for. Since then, I stopped using for statements unless dealing with very small arrays. I try to trim off any excess load that I can.

Have you noticed any speed difference between any of these?


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