What is the best practice for differentiating rows or columns in a table to apply specific styling in PHP?

When working with tables in PHP, one common need is to differentiate rows or columns to apply specific styling. One way to achieve this is by using conditional statements within a loop that generates the table rows. By checking if the current row or column meets certain criteria, you can apply different styles accordingly. This can be done by using a counter variable to keep track of the row or column index and applying different CSS classes based on the counter value. 

<table>
    <?php
    $row_counter = 0;
    $column_counter = 0;

    for ($i = 0; $i < $num_rows; $i++) {
        echo "<tr class='" . ($row_counter % 2 == 0 ? 'even' : 'odd') . "'>";
        
        for ($j = 0; $j < $num_columns; $j++) {
            echo "<td class='" . ($column_counter % 2 == 0 ? 'even' : 'odd') . "'>";
            // Output table data here
            echo "</td>";
            
            $column_counter++;
        }
        
        echo "</tr>";
        $row_counter++;
    }
    ?>
</table>

Keywords

PHP HTML CSS table styling

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