Adding separator stripes with PHP

Adding separator stripes with PHP
If you’re creating a table from data stored in a database, automating separator stripes is a
relatively simple process. After the PHP for retrieving data and the opening table markup
(including headers), you add the following:
$alternate = TRUE;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($sqlresult)) :
if($alternate) :
$class = ' class="alt"';
$alternate = FALSE;
else :
$class = "";
$alternate = TRUE;
endif;
echo '<tr'.$class.'>';
echo '<td>' . $row->field1 . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row->field2 . '</td>';
echo '</tr>';
endwhile;
This is then followed by the markup to close the table. Note that in this example, the alt
class value is applied to alternate table rows, so the CSS from the previous exercise should
still work fine