Trying to build a while loop. Advice, tips, help?

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#1   Trying to build a while loop. Advice, tips, help?
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I figure on changing out the <li></li>'s for a function maybe and the function doing the work, but here is what I got now, and instead of the <li>'s i'd like to have it do <td>'s and stop at 3 columns and start a new <tr> row. so the page isn't so god awful long.

  if ($misc == "") {
                 $misc = "None";
             } else {
                 $misc = ereg_replace (",", "</li><li>", $misc);
         }

I have a general idea but just can't seem to make my brain print it out through my fingers. I want to throw the new rows in after like three or so so it becoms a nice neat organized table instead of all in a row. The $misc for example from above comes from a TEXT type field in mysql that has entries that are seperated by , so the ereg_replace will make it into new lines each item. I know this can be done by a while loop and count++'s but putting it down in the code is confusing me and i am lost and have a headache.


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Ok this is what i came up with if anyone has better idea please share lol

if ($misc == "") {
   $misc = "None";   
}else{
     $misc = explode(',', $misc);
     $text = '<table><tr>';
     foreach ($misc as $value) {
          if($i == 3){
         $text .= '</tr><tr>';
         $i = 0;         
      }
          $text .= '<td>'.$value.'</td>';
      $i++;
   }
   $text .= '</tr></table>';
   $misc = $text;
}




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That worked great, thank you.



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icon_biggrin.gif happy to help where i can




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I always tend to forget about explode() if I don't use it after a while. lol



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i find it very useful to get at those CSV's stuff i still dont know any better way todo it.




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