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22 years ago
Well, I've been into PHP for four hours and thanks to "my predecessors before me" (gold163, curt, et al.) I've managed the following. The first thing I try to learn with any web scripting language is to build a dynamic table from a data source. (One thing you didn't have to do gold -previous post- is build an array for the field value.) Cheers! Alex

<html>
 <head>
  <title>PHP Database Example</title>
 </head>
 <style type="text/css">
 <!--
  body {font: 10pt/12pt Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: indigo; margin: .25in .5in }
  table {color:Navy; background-color:AntiqueWhite; border-color:Maroon; border-style:Solid; border-width: 2px; }
  th {color: blue; font-weight: bold; }
  td {font-size: smaller; }
  .mytable {color:Maroon; background-color:White; border-color:Navy; border-style:Solid; border-width: 1px; }
  th.mytable {background-color:#C0C0C0; }
 //-->
 </style>
 <body>

 <p><?php echo date("j F, Y"); ?></p>
<?php

$db = odbc_connect("eSell22MDB","","");
$result = odbc_exec($db, "select ProductID, ProductName, Description1 from Products");

// cool function - returns table
odbc_result_all($result, "border=\"1\" class=\"def\"");

$result = odbc_exec($db, "select * from Products") or die("Select failed");

$myUtil = new Utilities();

$myUtil->standard_table($result,"mytable");

class Utilities {

     function standard_table($result,$class="")
     {
         // To format your table if you want to use cascading style sheets
         if ($class == "")
         {
             $css_table = " border=\"1\"";
             $css_tr = "";
             $css_th = "";
             $css_td = ""; 
         }
         else
         {
             $css_table = " class=\"$class\"";
             $css_tr = " class=\"$class\"";
             $css_th = " class=\"$class\"";
             $css_td = " class=\"$class\""; 
         }

         // Create field names for table header row
         $i = 0; 
         $fieldCount = odbc_num_fields($result); 
         echo "  <table$css_table>\n";
         echo "   <tr$css_tr>\n";

         while ($i < $fieldCount) 
         { 
             $i++; 
             $fieldName = odbc_field_name($result, $i); 
             echo "    <th$css_th>$fieldName</th>\n"; 
         } 
         echo "   </tr>\n";

         # Create table data rows for query result
         while (odbc_fetch_row($result)) 
         {
             $i = 0; 
             echo "   <tr$css_tr>\n"; 
             while ($i < $fieldCount) 
             { 
                 $i++; 
                 $fieldData = trim(odbc_result($result, $i));
                 if ($fieldData  == "")
                     echo "    <td$css_td>&nbsp;</td>\n";
                 else 
                     echo "    <td$css_td>$fieldData</td>\n"; 
             } 
             echo "   </tr>\n";
         }
         echo "  </table>";
     }
} // class Utilities

?>

 </body>
</html>
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