Iterating through results help please

Question

H i have a Mysql database that contains and ID and a rating. I would like to iterate through the results of the query and display a number of stras that relates to the rating.
JSP page code:
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" errorPage="errorPage.jsp" language="java" import="java.sql.*" import="java.util.Date.*" %>
<%@ page language="java" import="java.sql.*" %>
<%!
// define variables
String portfolio_id;
int p_rating;
String conn;
%>
<%
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
//get parameter to search by
//String modelNO = request.getParameter("model_number");
// create connection string
//jdbc:mysql://host_name:port/dbname - MySQL Connector/J JDBC Driver.
conn = "jdbc:mysql://server/md_portfolio?user=user&password=password";
// pass database parameters to JDBC driver
Connection Conn = DriverManager.getConnection(conn);
// query statement
Statement SQLStatement = Conn.createStatement();
// generate query
String Query = "SELECT * FROM md_portfolio";
// get result
ResultSet SQLResult = SQLStatement.executeQuery(Query);
   while(SQLResult.next())
      portfolio_id = SQLResult.getString("portfolio_id");
       p_rating = SQLResult.getInt("p_rating");  
out.println("ID: " + portfolio_id + "<br>");
out.println("Rating: " + p_rating + "<br>");
//////////i want the stars to be out put here/////////////
     /*int value = p_rating;
     int i = 0;
        while (value[i] > 5)
            out.println(" * ");
               values[i++];
// close connection
SQLResult.close();
SQLStatement.close();
Conn.close();
%>My final plan is change the * for an actual image of a star. Please help i should know how to do this but i cant. Thanks.
Message was edited by:
JamesMorgan

Answer 1

Thankyou it has kinda given me what i want.
I have chanegd the code slightly to output like this for testing purposes:
out.println("ID: " + portfolio_id + "<br>");
out.println("Rating: " + p_rating + "<br>");//to be reomved once completed
while (p_rating < 5) {
            p_rating++;
             out.println("* ");
          out.println("<br>");
          out.println("--------------------<br>");which output this
ID: 1
Rating: 2
ID: 2
Rating: 2
ID: 3
Rating: 2
ID: 4
Rating: 3
--------------------However if you see it ouputs the number of stars left not the actual rating its self.
Any idea. i have changed the operators of the loop i.e. <= >= etc and has no luck. if i change it to -- not ++ then the pages just continuously fills with stars.
any ideas please.