Next post a different color

Hi, I'm trying to create something like a forum, I want to make it easier for the users to read the post by changing the color of the posts. So the first post will have a background color of #333 and the second one will be #444 and the third one will be again #333. how can I do that? I'm using mysql to display the post

Thanks in advance.

 

Just a quick tutorial I googled for you

http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Database-Articles/Alternating-row-colors-with-PHP-and-mySQL/1/

 

During output set your logic as

if post number is odd set bgcolor #333
else set bgcolor=#444

to find odd or even you can get the remainder of post number by 2. That will be 0 for even and 1 for odd rows.

 

Thank you guys I'll try both.

 

class alternator
{
      private $state;
      public $a;
      public $b;
      public function __construct($a = '', $b = '')
      {
         $this->a = $a;
         $this->b = $b;
         $this->state = false;
      }
      public function __toString()
      {
         $this->state = !$this->state;
         return $this->state ? $this->a : $this->b;
      }
}

Code (markup):

$row_color = new alternator('#900', '#009');

echo "The first color is $row_color<br/>";
echo "The second color is $row_color<br/>";

// Note there would never be an odd number in this situation
for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i += 2)
{
   printf('<li style="background-color:%s;">%s</li>', $row_color, $i);
}

while($row = get_row())
{
   printf('<li style="background-color:%s;">%s</li>', $row_color, $row);
}

Code (markup):

http://develobert.blogspot.com/2008/01/alternating-php-object.html

 

Thanks for that joebert