Alternating table rows in PHP

Introduction

This piece of code shall beginners show how to use modulo for designing complex formatted table easily.

<?php $data = array(3,4,3,2,3,2,4,5,11,2,3,2,3,4,5,6,7,5,4,1,8,9,8,7,6,6,4,5,4,4,4,3,3,2,2,4,6,7,8,9); ?> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400"> <?php foreach($data as $index => $val):?> <tr> <?php if($index%10==0) { $color = '#f5f5f5'; $borderTop = 'border-top:2px solid #ccc;'; $borderBottom = 'border-bottom:2px solid #ccc;'; }elseif($index%5==0) { $color = '#f0f0f0'; $borderTop = ''; $borderBottom = 'border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;'; }else { $color = '#ffffff'; $borderTop = ''; if($index==count($data)-1){ $borderBottom = 'border-bottom:2px solid #ccc;'; } else { $borderBottom = 'border-bottom:1px dotted #ccc;'; } } ?> <?php for($colIndex=0;$colIndex<5;++$colIndex):?> <?php if($colIndex==0) { $borderRight = 'border-right:2px solid #ccc;'; $borderLeft = 'border-left:2px solid #ccc;'; } elseif($colIndex%4==0) { $borderRight = 'border-right:2px solid #ccc;'; $borderLeft = 'border-left:1px solid #ccc;'; } else { $borderRight = ''; $borderLeft = 'border-left:1px solid #ccc;'; } ?> <td style="background-color:<?php echo $color;?>;<?php echo $borderBottom;?><?php echo $borderTop;?><?php echo $borderRight;?><?php echo $borderLeft;?>"><?php echo $index." ".$val;?></td> <?php endfor;?> </tr> <?php endforeach;?> </table>

Important!

Do always begin with the highest increment, when defining the clause, otherwise lower increment clauses will overwrite the higher ones.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Intelliproject Open License (IPOL)

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