>Blink 182 >--------- > >Whats my age again? Guitar Bass Drum Lyrics Buy >at Amazon. >Dammit Guitar Bass Drum Lyrics >Buy at Amazon. >MnMs Guitar Bass Drum Lyrics >Buy at Amazon. > >Now I know this would be simpler if I had them in different tables, but I >have my reasons why I dont. >Here is the setup of the table for storing tabs/lyrics.. > >CREATE TABLE `resources` ( >`id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, >`type` TEXT NOT NULL, >`title` VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, >`content` TEXT NOT NULL, >`user_id` INT NOT NULL, >`rating` INT DEFAULT '5' NOT NULL, >`views` INT DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL, >`date` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL, >`artist_id` TEXT, >`amazon` TEXT, >INDEX (`id`), >UNIQUE (`id`) >);
Is 'type' filled in with one of 'Guitar', 'Bass', 'Drum', 'Lyrics' ??? If so, you could do this: create table types(type_id, type text not null); insert into types(type) values('Guitar'); insert into types(type) values('Bass'); insert into types(type) values('Drum'); You could then do: select blah from resources left outer join types on resources.type = types.type where artist_id = 'Blink 182' order by title, type_id Then your rows will just naturally "fill" the table. Or, if you could live with the order being: 'Bass', 'Drum', 'Guitar', 'Lyrics' instead, you could use the table you have and do: select blah from resources order by type where artist_id = 'Blink 182' order by title Then, in your PHP script, you'll have to do: $columns = array('Bass', 'Drum', 'Guitar', 'Lyrics'); $column = 0; $row = mysql_fetch_row(...); while($row){ if ($row['type'] == $columns[$column % count($columns)]){ echo "<A HREF blah blabh blah"; $row = mysql_fetch_row(...); } $column++; } The technique here is to increase your $column so you know where to put the data, and to *ONLY* output a for and fetch a new row when you are in the correct column for that tablature. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm I'm looking for a PRO QUALITY two-input sound card supported by Linux (any major distro). Need to record live events (mixed already) to stereo CD-quality. Soundcard Recommendations? Software to handle the recording? Don't need fancy mixer stuff. Zero (0) post-production time. Just raw PCM/WAV/AIFF 16+ bit, 44.1KHz, Stereo audio-to-disk. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php