CSS Styling A PHP Generated Table

[tomyknoker]

I have a layout on my table cells which I guess some people call a zebra layout. All the odd rows are say blue and all the even are blue. So say the first row blue, second red and so on... It's easy to do this in a simple table, but for my php page which shows the results do they all have to be odd? Of anyone can tell me a simple way of doing this...

  <tr valign="top" class="odd">
    <td><?php echo $qry['FirstName']; ?></td>
	<td><?php echo $qry['LastName']; ?></td>
    <td><?php echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime($qry['DateOfBirth'])); ?></td>
    <td><?php echo($qry['loginDateTime']?date('d/m/Y H:i:s', strtotime($qry['loginDateTime'])):'N/A'); ?></td>
    <td><?php echo $qry['State'];?></td>
    <td><?php echo $q['Name'];?></td>
  </tr>
<?php
   }
}

echo '</table>';
?>

[tina88]

Hiya, have a look at these tutorials
http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/5/0.php
http://www.roscripts.com/Alternate_r...th_PHP-96.html

[tomyknoker]

Ok I tried this but no luck... Can anyone take a look?

<?php

/* connect to the mysql database and use a query to get the members info */

include 'configure.php';
include 'open.php';
//navigation

include("nav.php");

//assign the bday variable.
$month = $_REQUEST['month'];

$color1 = "#CCFFCC";  
$color2 = "#BFD8BC";  
$row_count = 0;

//birthday search
$info = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tblmembers` WHERE (MONTH(DateOfBirth) = '{$month}') AND `MemberApproved`='A'");
?>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="POST">
Brithday Month: <select name="month">
  <option>Select A Month</option>
  <option value="1">January</option>
  <option value="2">February</option>
  <option value="3">March</option>
  <option value="4">April</option>
  <option value="5">May</option>
  <option value="6">June</option>
  <option value="7">July</option>
  <option value="8">August</option>
  <option value="9">September</option>
  <option value="10">October</option>
  <option value="11">November</option>
  <option value="12">December</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>

<?php
echo '<table width="700" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <caption>MEMBERS - BIRTHDAYS SEARCH Download Details</caption>
  <thead>
  <tr>
    <th scope="col" class="left">FIRST NAME</th>
    <th scope="col">LAST NAME</th>
    <th scope="col">DATE OF BIRTH</th>
    <th scope="col">LAST LOGIN</th>
    <th scope="col" class="right">STATE</th>
  </tr>
  </thead>
  <tr class="odd">
    <td>On Hold </td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>';

if (mysql_num_rows($info) < 1) {
echo '<tr valign="top">
  <td colspan="5>There are no members that match the query. Please go back and try again</td>
    </tr>';
}

else {
   while ($qry = mysql_fetch_array($info)) {

$rep = $qry['rep_NBR'];

    $repInfo = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tblrepresentatives` WHERE `rep_NBR`='$rep'");
    $q = mysql_fetch_array($repInfo);
    $row_color = ($row_count &#37; 2) ? $color1 : $color2; 

//create the layout
?>
<link href="cs_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

  <tr valign="top">
    <td bgcolor="$row_color" ><?php echo $qry['FirstName']; ?></td>
    <td bgcolor="$row_color"><?php echo $qry['LastName']; ?></td>
    <td bgcolor="$row_color"><?php echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime($qry['DateOfBirth'])); ?></td>
    <td bgcolor="$row_color"><?php echo($qry['loginDateTime']?date('d/m/Y H:i:s', strtotime($qry['loginDateTime'])):'N/A'); ?></td>
    <td bgcolor="$row_color"><?php echo $qry['State'];?></td>
    <td bgcolor="$row_color"><?php echo $q['Name'];?></td>
  </tr>
<?php
$row_count++;

   }

}

echo '</table>';
?>

[tina88]

$row_color is a php variable so it needs to be inside php tags.

try

<td bgcolor="<?php echo $row_color ?>" ><?php echo $qry['FirstName']; ?></td>