Tricky Block Request

[jacortina]

You need something to be able to grab onto to trigger the 'break' from the first column (table cell) and the second.

[Rus]

or perhaps go left, right, left right, under a category?

[jacortina]

Well ... that's not how HTML works (and php puts out HTML; that's what it is, a hypertext preprocessor). You can't go back to a previous element that's already been output. You may (with a lot of work) do something to build each side and hold them in arrays/conacatentaed strings before then echoing those out.

But, it's hard to see how to retain the nesting of child/sub boards in that kind of presentation.

[Rus]

Ahhhh, in my attempt I tried to use a table with 2 td and a tr and it didnt work.

[jacortina]

That's the thing, you put something in the first td, then switch to the second and you can't really go back to the first.

That's why you'd have to cahce the output some way, building the two strings or arrays, and only after they're built do you output one to the first td and the other to the second td.

[JPDeni]

Or you could have each item in its own cell:

item 1	item 2
item 3	item 4
item 5	item 6
item 7	item 8
item 9	item 10

[Rus]

thats what I tried but it kept failing before it output the first row

[JPDeni]

I'd have to see your code in order to know what you did wrong.

[Rus]

I got frustrated and deleted it already.  Basically I tried starting a table before the query used on page 2 of this thread and inside the while statement tried using a counter to make only 2 columns with with tds and then when the counter hit 2 reset it to 1 and put in a tr.

That didnt work.  Do you think you could make something that would work?

[IchBin]

Here's some code I did hacked on for recent articles that gave 3 columns, then starts a new row. Perhaps that can help you understand how it works.

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// ÃÅ"bersicht Tauchplätze österreich
global $db_prefix, $scripturl;

$category = 1; // Tauchplatzkategorie

$query = db_query(
    "SELECT id, subject
     FROM {$db_prefix}tp_articles
     WHERE category = $category
     AND off = 0
     AND approved = 1
     ORDER BY subject", __FILE__, __LINE__);
echo '<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%;">';

$i = 0;

echo '<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>';
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
  echo '<td style="padding-left: 20px;"><a href="' . $scripturl . '?page=' . $row['id'] . '">' . $row['subject'] . '</a></td>'; 
$i++;
if ($i > 2){
echo '</tr><tr>';
$i = 0;
}
}
echo '</tr></table>';
echo '</div>';