How ddoes this loop

[leocrawf]

Could someone read this code and tell me how it loops. Is it looping from left to right or from top to bottom to create the table. It seems silly but it will help in how i am trying to modify it. What i really want to know is if it is creating a column head and column body one column at a time or creating all the heads from left to right then all the column body cells from left to right. Hope i am not confusing. Here is the code:

mysql_select_db($database_myPlaceConn, $myPlaceConn);
$query="select * from myp_massuploads";
$result=mysql_query($query,$myPlaceConn) or die("Query ($query) sucks!");
$fields=mysql_num_fields($result);

echo "<table>\n<tr>";
for ($i=0; $i < mysql_num_fields($result); $i++) //Table Header
{ print "<th>".mysql_field_name($result, $i)."</th>"; }
echo "</tr>\n";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { //Table body
echo "<tr>";
    for ($f=0; $f < $fields; $f++) {
    echo "<td>$row[$f]</td>"; }
echo "</tr>\n";}
echo "</table><p>";

[recursion]

Table Head, one column at a time

echo "<table>\n<tr>";
for ($i=0; $i < mysql_num_fields($result); $i++) //Table Header
{ 
print "<th>".mysql_field_name($result, $i)."</th>"; 
}
echo "</tr>\n";

THEN

Table body, one column at a time for each row

while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { //Table body
echo "<tr>";
    for ($f=0; $f < $fields; $f++) {
    echo "<td>$row[$f]</td>"; }
echo "</tr>\n";}
echo "</table><p>";

[leocrawf]

Thats what i thought. Thank you.

[owen]

It is the nature of html to be 1 tag after the other. so if you checked the html output of the code you should be able to easily see what is going. You could also put a print out the $i variable and then look at the source to see the order. Debuging 101

[jay_b]

i think once its a table, it will create it from left to right