Alternating row colours

Have you ever wanted to make a table with alternating row colours?

Well I did it for a site and thought it would be great to share it. Here

PHP:

//connect to db and select table
$db1 = mysql_connect("host", "user", "pass");
mysql_select_db("$db",$db1);
$table = "tablename"; //table name
$list = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `$table` ORDER BY `coulmn_name` ASC "); // the SQL of the table you will show
echo"
<h3>
<p align="center">$table</p>
</h3>
"; //title for the page
echo('
<table style="border: 1px solid black; font-family: Verdana; height: 110px;" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" width="500" align="center">'); //add the table
echo('
<tbody>
<tr align="center">
<td><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Date</span></strong></td>
<td><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">description</span></strong></td>
</tr>
'); // top row with the titles
while($get=mysql_fetch_array($list))
{
//chooses colous
if ($color == "CCFFCC")
{
$color = "FFFFFF";//change the code
}
else
{
$color = "CCFFCC"; //change the code
}
echo('
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#000000">
<td>'. $get['Date'] .'</td>
<td>'. $get['description'] .'</td>
</tr>
'); //add the contents
}
echo("</tbody></table>
"); //finish the table
?>