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dareal hamsta wrote:
[ Please copy me off list. ]
Say I have 7 items of data and I wish to sort them into 3 columns in a HTML table. The items are unevenly sized, so rather than print them out in rows - resulting in lots of wasteful whitespace - I would like to output them in vertical order. However if I use the modulus operator to check for when to break into a new column...
foreach ($items as $item) { $counter++; if ( ($counter % $columns) == 0) { print "</td><td>"; } }
...the output will be something like this...
+-------+-------+-------+ | Item1 | Item4 | Item7 | | Item2 | Item5 | | | Item3 | Item6 | | +-----------------------+
...when what I'm really looking for is this...
+-------+-------+-------+ | Item1 | Item4 | Item6 | | Item2 | Item5 | Item7 | | Item3 | | | +-----------------------+
Obviously if the number of items and columns are static, I have no problem, but how do I get a layout that appeals to people and not computers if they're dynamic? This has me befuddled, I'm wondering is there an algorithm for doing it or is it effectively a Turing Test.
Thanks, adam
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