I'm developing my own site displaying large amounts of car specs, I will eventually provide data for all cars. I'mm looking at a mountain of data and need to scale quickly.


So far I've been writing plain html tables like this, an example of a block of information. I've been manually using this method like I have been would take way to long for me to get anywhere.

<table class="tittlebar"><tr><td><h2>Manufacture Information</h2></td></tr></table>
<table class="cardata">
<tr class="cardataeditions"><td class ="tittle">Brand</td><td class ="specs">Audi</td><td class ="specs">Audi</td></tr>
<tr class="cardataeven"><td class ="tittle">Model</td><td class ="specs">A6 4-Door Saloon</td><td class ="specs">A6 4-Door Saloon</td></tr>
<tr class="cardataodd"><td class ="tittle">Edition</td><td class ="specs">2.0 TFSI LeMans</td><td class ="specs">2.0 TDI 170 LeMans</td></tr>
</table>

I've been looking for a efficient way to display tables, I want my webpages
to load fast and be compatible with droid and iphones. I run my site off wordpress with php execusion based on a thesis template.

I would like to call up and print tables like the method above but using php to print the specs from sql databases.

<table class="tittlebar"><tr><td><h2>Manufacture Information</h2></td></tr></table>
<table class="cardata">
<tr class="cardataeditions"><td class ="tittle">Brand</td><td class ="specs">sqldata</td><td class ="specs">sqldata</td></tr>
<tr class="cardataeven"><td class ="tittle">Model</td><td class ="specs">sqldata</td><td class ="specs">sqldata</td></tr>
<tr class="cardataodd"><td class ="tittle">Edition</td><td class ="specs">sqldata</td><td class ="specs">sqldata</td></tr>
</table>

I would like some thoughts I'm really open to anything new, or anyother suggestions. I looked a json and xml as well, and I'm willing to utilize mootools or jquery.

statisiticar.com for a view of how data is displayed so far. Open for comments about my site design in general as well. This maybe a no brainer for some.... but I'm truly stuck on this barrier.

regards

you should OO (Object Orientate) this project

If the data is stored in the same set of fields then you could write a method to display the data and just call it again and again passing in the record ID as an argument

Thanks I tried a few scripts already. But I'm not satisfied with what I came up with so far, I'm pretty sure I was using procedural scripts.

Are you able to give a link to an example or a tutorial. I usually go and find samples than reverse engineer it myself. I tried google searches and read plenty of theory but nothing specific to my problem.

Thanks for your reply and pointing me into a direction. I'll keep searching. I have a good feeling this will solve my problem.

http://www.gotapi.com/php/php_object...tutorials.html
this is what I found so far I'll post my code once I figure it out.