$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT term FROM logs WHERE term_soundex LIKE LEFT(SOUNDEX('$trimmed'),4) AND results2 >0 AND term REGEXP '[0-9]' !=1 LIMIT 10"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die ("<center> ERROR: ".mysql_error()."</center>"); $x = 0; echo "<table border=\"1\" align=\"center\">"; while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)) { $compare = $row[term]; $levenshtein = levenshtein($trimmed, $compare); $lengthdifference = max($trimmed, $compare) - min($trimmed, $compare); $levenshtein-=$lengthdifference; $similarity = $levenshtein/strlen(min($trimmed, $compare)); $row[] = $similarity; sort($row, SORT_DESC); if ($x == 0) // so that table headers are only created on the first pass { $col = (count($row)); // counts number of elements in the array $x=1; echo "<tr>"; for ($y=0; $y<$col; $y++) { echo "<th>"; echo key($row); // gets the names of the fields echo "</th>"; next($row); } echo "</tr>"; } reset($row); echo "<tr>"; for ($y=0; $y<$col; $y++) { echo "<td valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">"; echo current($row); echo"</td>"; next($row); } echo "</tr>"; } // end of while loop