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August 2nd, 2003, 02:30 PM

djkkenny

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php table help??

hi im really new to php developing, i have this tabel written in PHP, but i have no idea on how to customize it...
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PHP Code:


		
			
<table cellpadding='3' cellSpacing='2' width='350'>";

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {

echo  "<tr valign='top'><td><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font color=\"#FFCC00\"><b><a href=\"$urlPath/viewtopic.php?topic=$row[topic_id]&forum=$row[forum_id]\">" .

$row["topic_title"] .

"</a></td></font></b><td><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font color=\"#C0C0C0\"> by: <a href=\"$urlPath/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$row[user_id]\">" .

$row["username"] .

"</td><td><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font color=\"#C0C0C0\">" .

date('F j, Y, g:i a', $row["post_time"]) .

"</td></tr></font>";

}

print "</table>

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thats the code i have, and basically i want to different colour backgrounds to each row, and if possible have one column with a picture on each row...

i also need to have a set width for each column... i would appreciate any feeback or help you can give!!

thanks very much in advance.

August 3rd, 2003, 09:15 AM

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djkkenny,

Customizing it can be done in various ways... I don't know exactly how much you want to customize it..

As for alternating the row colours, what you can do is perform a calculation using the modulus (%) operator, which will determine which row colour to use on each row:

PHP Code:


		
			
 $i = 0;

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {



// This determines the row colour to use

if (($i % 2) == 0){

   $colour = "background-color='#ffffff'";

else {

   $colour = "background-color='#ff0000'";

}



echo  "<tr valign='top'><td><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=\"1\"><font color=\"#FFCC00\" [b]$colour[/b]><b><a href=\"$urlPath/viewtopic.php?topic=$row[topic_id]&forum=$row[forum_id]\">" 

...

} // end of while

That will give you alternating row colours...

I would, however, suggest using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) rather than hard-coding your colour/style values directly in your html tags.

HTH!

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August 4th, 2003, 07:09 AM

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It sounds like maybe you need to find a quick HTML primer for these very basic questions.

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