insert HTML on specific count

[jfilan]

I have the following template that repeats itself in the results:

<table width="300" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>product</td>
</tr>

</table>

And right now I am showing 10 per page w/ a pager. I want to be able to count the repeated template and insert a banner ad after the template repeats 5 times. So it would be like:

template
template
template
template
template
template
BANNER
template
template
template
template
template

Do I give the template an ID and do some type of counting? And if ID COUNT equals 5 then post banner ad? I just need to get a little jump start in the right direction.

I would like to accomplish it this way:

<table width="300" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="searchtemplate">
<tr>
<td>product</td>
</tr>

</table>
<?php include("count.php"); ?>

Can someone show me how to do this? Or post an example script that I could modify?

 

[jpadie]

assuming you are outputting the rows from a database

$counter = 1;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
 //output row for product
 if ($counter  == 5){
  showBanner();
  $counter = 1;
 } else {
  $counter ++;
 }
}

function showBanner(){
//insert the banner row
}

 

[jfilan]

thanks jpadie. do i save that as my include? yes, the results are coming from a mysql database.

 

[jpadie]

no - just use this as your main rendering code.