Alternate Row Colors

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This tutorial will teach you how to use PHP to alternate row colors. This can be applied to any loop.

Example:

0	http://www.westernstudios.net
1	http://www.westernstudios.net
2	http://www.westernstudios.net
3	http://www.westernstudios.net
4	http://www.westernstudios.net

Steps :
1. This is a very simple bit of code but the results will be easier for the user to understand. The following codes does the trick. The key is the ($i % 2). That code is used to see if there are any remainders which will inturn determine if the number is odd or even.

//define alternate colors $color1 = "#EBF8FE"; $color2 = "#ffffff"; $count = 5;//number of values in the loop echo '<table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="left">'; //run the loop for($i =0; $i <$count; $i++){ if($i % 2){ $showcolor = $color1;//display color1 }else{ $showcolor = $color2;//display color2 } //show table rows echo '<tr style="background:'.$showcolor.'; height:25px;"><td>'.$i.'</td><td>http://www.westernstudios.net</td></tr>'; } echo '</table>';

As you can see we displayed the color using CSS. You can choose to display the color using the bgcolor row tag but for better coding, this method is best.

 

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