[Solved] Loops and making new divs after so many records.

[davebandit]

Thanks in advance for any help.

I am working on a site that uses a flat file to store some records. I am using a jQuery slider to display information on each record in the flat file. I need a new div to be created after four records are displayed so the slider has a new page.

How do I loop through the records and create a new div after four records are pulled?

Right now I just have a for loop that displays all the records in one long line.

Code:

$albumList = file(“../albums/albumtlist.txt”);

foreach($albumList as $Key => $Val)
{
//explode that data into a new array:
$album[$Key] = explode(“||”, $Val);
}

Then Later it displays the records and puts them into Divs for a slider. I want to put four records into each div but here is how my code looks to display them all out in one long line.

Code:

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#70089

jinfiesto

Member

Hmmm. I would go ahead and write a function to do what you want. Instead of looping, I would write it recursively. What you could do is initialize $K, and then set up a conditional statement to evaluate the value of $K at every pass through the function and based on the value of $K put stuff into divs. So maybe something like.

*Pseudo-code*

Code:

function divsilliness
$K++
If $K<4

Your stuff here

else
end

And then you’d have to do something like this

Code:

function checkrecords
if *records has stuff in it*
*call function divsilliness*
*call self again*
else
end

Sorry, I’m too lazy to actually write it out, but I think it should go something like that.

#70340

davebandit

Member

Thank you for the response.

I was thinking along the sames lines, I was just hoping there was a more elegant way to do what I was thinking.

My problem with using a function with the "if $K<4…blah blah…" was the loop used $K ;ater down the line while the whole thing was looping for each record, and with 50 plus records it needed to be incremental.

So I ending up something like this (I decided to go with groups of 8 instead of 4)

Code:

‘;
} // Rest of loop below

[jinfiesto]

Hmmm. I would go ahead and write a function to do what you want. Instead of looping, I would write it recursively. What you could do is initialize $K, and then set up a conditional statement to evaluate the value of $K at every pass through the function and based on the value of $K put stuff into divs. So maybe something like.

*Pseudo-code*

Code:

function divsilliness
$K++
If $K<4

Your stuff here

else
end

And then you’d have to do something like this

Code:

function checkrecords
if *records has stuff in it*
*call function divsilliness*
*call self again*
else
end

Sorry, I’m too lazy to actually write it out, but I think it should go something like that.

[davebandit]

Thank you for the response.

I was thinking along the sames lines, I was just hoping there was a more elegant way to do what I was thinking.

My problem with using a function with the "if $K<4…blah blah…" was the loop used $K ;ater down the line while the whole thing was looping for each record, and with 50 plus records it needed to be incremental.

So I ending up something like this (I decided to go with groups of 8 instead of 4)

Code:

‘;
} // Rest of loop below

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