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Make a very simple alternating table row colors in short codings.

This tutorial require 1 PHP file and 1 table of mySQL database.

alternating_colors.php
Database "tutorial" and table "name_list" with 2 fields: id(auto_increment), name(varchar, 50) and put some records about 20 - 30 records into this table. (directly by phpMyAdmin)

• alternating_color.php

Source Code
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head><body>
<?
// Connect database.
mysql_connect("localhost","","");
mysql_select_db("tutorial");

// Get data records from table.
$result=mysql_query("select * from name_list order by id asc");
?>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FF9900"><strong>No.</strong></td>
<td bgcolor="#FF9900"><strong>Company</strong></td>
</tr>
<?
// Make a variable "$num" with a value "1".
$num=1;

// Do while loop for out put records.
while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){

// Plus 1 at $num.
$num++;

// Use modulus by 2 in $num value and set the value of "$bg" if result equal 0 or not.
if(($num%2)!=0){
$bg="#FFCC00";
}else{
$bg="#FFFF00";
}
?>
<tr bgcolor="<? echo $bg; ?>">
<td><? echo $row['id']; ?></td>
<td><? echo $row['name']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?
// End while loop.
}

// Close database connection.
mysql_close();
?>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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Alternating Table Row Colors

• alternating_color.php