Probably an easy layout/PHP thumbnail question

[mateymate]

I have a quick question about using pictures with a PHP site. I have a table with the following fields:

thumbnail
original
caption

I also have a news section and some reports contain images and some do not. I have the pictures loading for the particular news story no problem. My news section is a specified width so at the end of each story I want a series of thumbnails at the bottom. What I want to do is have the thumbnails load, and if they get to a stage where there are more than for, a new table row is created, as at present they just go wild and overlap my content.

So far on my page I have the following setup

echo '<table>';
    echo '<tr>';
    getnewsimages($newsid); <-- this calls the method for the picture with the news story id
    echo '</tr>';
    echo '</table>';

My method then contains this code, and this creates the first line correctly, moves to the second but then creates a new row every time a thumbnail is generated:

 while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($gallery))
    {
        $thumbnail = $row['thumbnail'];
        $original = $row['original'];
        $caption = $row['caption'];
        ++$count;

        if ($count <= "4")
        {
            echo '<td>';
            echo '<img src="'.$thumbnail.'">';
            echo '</td>';
            
        }
        elseif ($count > "4")
        {
            echo '<tr>';
            echo '<td>';
            echo '<img src="'.$thumbnail.'">';
            echo '</td>';
        }

It is probably a schoolboy error but I was wondering if anyone can see the obvious mistake/omission?

[guido2004]

You'll have to reset the counter once you've reached the end of a row. Btw, you'll also have to write the closing </tr> tag somewhere.
And if $count is a counter, containing a numeric value, why do you confront it with "4"? 4 without the quotes will work just fine