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Alternating row colors in a WHILE statement

Asked by Simon336697 in PHP Scripting Language

Hi everyone hope you are all well.
Guys I have the following situation in which ive stuck a problem involving returning rows from mysql tables and alternating each row's color.
Ive attached the code in the snippet window.
Im using the modulus operator in a FOR statement, which works fine for alternating row colors when im using a FOR statement. Im using this when performing a mysql query to return ALL rows from a table.

I have another section though, where Id like to alternate row colors. This section filters the result set, but in this case, im using a WHILE statement to get the filtered results back.
The problem here is that I dont know how to alternate row colors when using the WHILE statement, since the alternating row color code is in the format of a 'FOR ($i = 0   blah blah)

Any help on getting the snippet code titled "code for the WHILE (not working with the alternating row color code):"
working would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys.


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======================================== THIS WORKS:
 
for ($i=0; $i < $numrows; $i++) {
$rows=mysql_fetch_array($result); // get a row from our result set
// while ($rows = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {   // Commenting out the above 2 lines and uncommenting this one results in the same thing, other than alternating colors. 
 
	if($i % 2) { // if there is a remainder 
	?>
		<tr class="altdelRow_0">
		<?php
		}
	else { // if there is not a remainder we will do the else ?>
		<tr class="altdelRow_1">
		 <?php
		}?>
			<td id="viewtasksidall"><?php echo $rows['id_ctk']; ?></td>
			<td id="viewtasksnameall"><?php echo stripslashes($rows['name_ctk']); ?></td>
			<td id="viewtasksprojectall"><?php echo stripslashes($rows['name_pro']); ?></td>
			<td id="viewtasksdescriptionall"><?php echo $rows['description_ctk']; ?></td>																	
		</tr> 		
	<?php } ?>
 
============================================ code for the WHILE (not working with the alternating row color code):
 
if (isset($_POST['projectid'])) {
	$grab_projectid = $_POST[projectid];		
	$sql_view_tasks =	"SELECT * FROM `$tbl_tasks`, `$tbl_projects` where fk_id_pro_ctk = id_pro AND id_pro = '$grab_projectid'";
	$result_view_tasks = mysql_query($sql_view_tasks);
 ?>
 
	<div id="div_wrapper_tablesort">
		<table id="table_sort" class="sortable">
			<thead><tr><td><b>ID</b></td><td><b>Task Name</b></td><td><b>Project</b></td><td><b>Description</b></td><td id="theaderedit"><b></b></td></tr></thead>
			<tbody>
				<?php while($rows_view_tasks=mysql_fetch_array($result_view_tasks)){ ?>
						<tr>
							<td id="viewtasksid"><?php echo $rows_view_tasks['id_ctk']; ?></td>
							<td id="viewtasksname">
								<a href="<?php echo $query_string_page; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo stripslashes($rows_view_tasks['name_ctk']); ?></a></td>						
							<td id="viewtasksproject"><?php echo $rows_view_tasks['name_pro']; ?></td>
							<td id="viewtasksdescription"><?php echo $rows_view_tasks['description_ctk']; ?></td>
							<td id="viewtasksradio">						
								<form name="formedit" method="post" action="edit_task.php">		
									<input type="checkbox" name="radioedittask" value="<?php echo $rows_view_tasks['id_ctk']; ?>">	
									<input type="hidden" name="hiddendescription" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($rows_view_tasks['description_ctk']); ?>"> 											
							</td>		
						</tr> <?php } ?>	
									<input id="edittaskbutton" type="submit" name="Submit" value="Edit">
								</form>	
			</tbody>
			<tfoot></tfoot>
		</table>
	</div>
<?php } else {  } ?>
 
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