Displaying data horizontal

Hello all,

I have the following custom code in my events tab.

<table>
<?php

$jaartal = '';

foreach($form->data['ACE'] as $record):
{
  if( $jaartal  != $record['jaartal'] )
  {
echo "<tr><td id='jaartal'>".( $record['jaartal'] )."</td></tr>";
$jaartal  = $record['jaartal'];

}
}
$columns = 2; //No of column
$dataToDisplay = array($record['naam']);
$columnwidth = 100/$columns;
$count = count($dataToDisplay);
$i =0;
foreach($dataToDisplay as $data) {
    if($i % $columns == 0){
        echo "<tr>";
    }
    echo "<td>" . $data . "</td>";
    if(($i % $columns) == ($columns - 1) || ($i + 1) == $num_rows){
        echo "</tr>";
    }
    $i++;
}
endforeach;
?>
</table>

With this code I get my results grouped by year:

1992
---------
january 1992
februari 1992
march 1992

1991
---------
january 1991
februari 1991
march 1991

The second thing I would like to do is displaying the data not verticaly, but horizontally. Like:

1992
---------
january 1992 februari 1992 march 1992

1991
---------
january 1991 februari 1991 march 1991

But how do you do this? In my code above the column part isn't working, but I can't figure out what.

Regards,
Ruud

Hi Ruud,

I think you probably need a colspan set in this line

echo "<tr><td colspan='3' id='jaartal' >{$record['jaartal']}</td></tr>";

Otherwise your table only has one column.

Bob

Hi Bob,

That didn't work for me.

But I found out that in the code there is the $num_rows. But nowhere in the code is something with $num_rows so I place the following code after <?php:

$db =& JFactory::getDBO();
$query = "SELECT * FROM ace_database";
$db->setQuery($query);
$db->query();
$num_rows = $db->getNumRows();

But this also didn't work😟

After some searching and testing I got it working.

<?php
$db =& JFactory::getDBO();
$query = "SELECT * FROM ace_database";
$db->setQuery($query);
$db->query();
$num_rows = $db->getNumRows();
$result=$db->loadAssocList();

$x = 0;
$num_cols = 4;

echo $num_rows;
echo $num_cols;

echo "
<table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='1' width='100%' >";


echo "
	<tr>
	<td valign='top' width='25%' id='tabel'>";
	foreach($result as $results)
	{
			echo $results['naam'];
		}
		$x++;

		if ($x == ceil($num_rows / $num_cols)) {

			echo "
			</td>
			<td valign='top' width='25%'>";

			$x = 0;

}
	echo "
	</td>
	</tr>
</table>";
?>

But for some kind of reason the last part of the code isn't working.

$x++;

		if ($x == ceil($num_rows / $num_cols)) {

			echo "
			</td>
			<td valign='top' width='25%'>";

			$x = 0;

I made a CSS border around the TD-element and I saw that every record is loaded within 1 TD-element (instead of each record in a seperate TD-element).

Anyone any ideas how to get this working?🙂