Benchmarkchart – php example code – part 5 – benchmark chart page and further thoughts
Article is focused on way how to alter existing code for showing submited post as a table. But scores are ordered in descending way and first 3 higest scores are differently styled. Latest part of article list number of ways hot to improve our aplication.
Numbering posted results in a chart
Before our update to code, we displayed in first table row ID number. For proper ordering from top score to bottom we must order query in descent way by score ID. Then we create auxiliary variable $postiton.
$position = 1; // first initialization of position
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($output)){
… output omited
//echo „<td>“ . $row[‚id‘] . „</td>“; this line is changed to incrementing number showing position of the score in chart
echo „<td id=\“$display\“>“ . $position++ . „</td>“; // increases number of position after disply by one
$position variable is increased by 1 after all pass trough while loop.
Different colors for first positions
A bit harder update must be done for marking of first three score position for further stylling into a diferent colors.
Our goal for display first scores in a chart
In our code we introduced new variable $display. Into $display variable is assigned name for <td> id first, secondandthree and others. In switch statement along value of $position variable these values are added into a $display variable.
Next part show how this update is implemented in final php code:
$position = 1; // first initialization of position
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($output)){ //next rows outputed in while loop
//echo “ <div class=\“mailinglist\“> “ ; class identification must differ first, two second and other position
switch ($position) { // along position from first to bottom displayed rows are marked with different names and recolored in style.css
case 1: $display=’first‘ ; break;
case 2:
case 3: $display=’secondandthree‘ ; break;
default: $display=’others‘ ;
};
echo „<tr>“;
//echo „<td>“ . $row[‚id‘] . „</td>“; this line is changed to incrementing number showing position of the score in chart
echo „<td id=\“$display\“>“ . $position++ . „</td>“; // increases number of position after disply by one
