While Loop, CSS layout

Ok i have to do a while loop with mysql and what not, i can do that on my own, but the site is using CSS, and i dont know how i can display the info.

here is the code without the PHP:

Code:

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<div class="left_side">
        <div class="right_articles">
                <p><img src="images1/image.gif" alt="Image" title="Image" class="image" /><b>Profile Name </b><br />
                Summary of the featured profile. </p>
        </div>
</div>
<div class="right_side">
        <div class="right_articles">
                <p><img src="images1/image.gif" alt="Image" title="Image" class="image" /><b>Profile Name </b><br />
                Summary of the featured profile.  </p>
        </div>
</div>

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The problem is the ' class="left_article" ' and ' class="right_article" '.

I am needing to get 2 records from the db and display them there.

hope i made myself clear enough :(

Do the query before the html and break in with the variables:

PHP Code:

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<?php
// assumed all connection and error handling....
$result = mysql_query('your query');
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);

?>

<div class="left_side">
    <div class="right_articles">
        <p><img src="images1/image.gif" alt="Image" title="Image" class="image" /><b><?php echo $row[0]; ?> </b><br />
        Summary of the featured profile. </p>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="right_side">
    <div class="right_articles">
        <p><img src="images1/image.gif" alt="Image" title="Image" class="image" /><b><?php echo $row[0]; ?> </b><br />
        Summary of the featured profile.  </p>
    </div>
</div>

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I assumed you are returning one row with your query.

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function...-fetch-row.php
Just as well can use mysql_fetch_assoc:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function...etch-assoc.php

if he's making a while loop, he is returning more than one row.

so, if you just have a left and right side, you can use a variable to indicate which side might be being used.

PHP Code:

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<?php
  $sql = "SELECT values FROM table WHERE 1 LIMIT 2";
  $q = mysql_query($q);
  $side = 0; //start on left side. left = 0; right = 1;
  while($a = mysql_fetch_array($q)){
    $class = ($side == 0) ? 'left' : 'right';
?>
<div class="<?php echo $class; ?>">
  <div class="right_articles">
    <?php echo $a['values']; ?>
  </div>
</div>
<?php } ?>

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Hard to say, based on the context of the html it doesn't seem like a while loop situation. I more assumed 2 columns and not records.

Good luck.

PHP provides an alternative syntax that makes inserting control structures into markup a breeze:

PHP Code:

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<div class="right_side">
  <?php foreach($right_articles as $article): ?>
    <div class="right_article">
      <p><?php echo $article['blahblah'] ?></p>
      <!-- etc. -->
    </div>
  <?php endforeach; ?>
</div>

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As ever, do all of your processing before outputting the markup; preferably, this should be done in separate code files.

i am using to to display 2 random records from the database. I will try Kows' code Think it might work.

kows code worked. Thanks again kows :)