How to display five rows?

Question

How can I use PHP to show five rows from a MySQL database, then create a new line and show another five, etc?

Answer 1

Use the LIMIT clause if you want to limit the amount of results returned from the query.

If you want to print an <hr/> after every fifth record you can check it via the modulus operator:

$counter = 1;

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rst)) {

 // print $row stuff

 if ($counter % 5 == 0)
    print "<hr />";

 $counter++;

}

Basically, we have a variable used to count how many records we've printed. Once that counter can be divided by five, and leave no remainder, we print our horizontal-rule.

Answer 2

Something like this may be helpful:

$result = mysql_query($query);  
if($result) {
    while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { 
        if(++$i%5==0 && $i>0) {
          /* do the extra thing... new line some styles */
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

Err.. you mean something like:

SELECT * FROM `tablename` WHERE ... LIMIT 5

Answer 4

$total = 20;//get total number here;
$limit = 5;
for($i = 0;$i< $total/$limit;$i++)
{
    $sql = $result = $rows = "";
    $start = $limit * $i;
    $sql = "select * from m_table order by id desc limit $start,$limit";
    $result = mysql_query($query);
    while($rows = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
    {
        //print the result here;
    }
}

You can fetch 5 rows every time from mysql without fetching all the rows at once.