output the data in each different tags

Hi guys,

 

I have stored data in a MySQL database and I've output it in PHP. I want to know how I can output the data in different <span id="text1">` tags from `<tr><td>` tags.

    <?php

      define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

      define('DB_USER', 'myusername');

      define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mypassword');

      define('DB_DATABASE', 'mydbname');   

   

      $errmsg_arr = array();

      $errflag = false;

      $link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);

   

       if(!$link)

      {

        die('Failed to connect to server: ' . mysql_error());

      }

      $db = mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE);

   

      if(!$db)

      {

        die("Unable to select database");

      }

   

   

      if($errflag)

      {

        $_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR'] = $errmsg_arr;

        echo implode('<br />',$errmsg_arr);

      }

      else

      {

        $qrytable1="SELECT id, mydata FROM mydb ";

        $result1=mysql_query($qrytable1) or die('Error:<br />' . $qry . '<br />' . mysql_error());

   

         while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result1))

        {

          echo "<tr><td>".$row['mydata']."</td></tr>";

        }

      }

    ?>

On my PHP page it show something like this:

    <tr><td>my data 1</td></tr><tr><td>my data 2</td></tr><tr><td>my data 3</td></tr><tr><td>my data 4</td></tr>

How can I split the output the data into an array before I could output them in different <span id="text1">` tags from `<tr><td>` tags?

any advice would be much appreicated.

 

thanks in advance