Set table width

[xo55ox]

Hi,

I am new with php. I need to loop through some variables and place
them in 3 columns. I couldn't align the header line and each result
line. How do I make the table in uniform size in each column? And how
do I wrap to new line if one of the variable is too long?
Thanks in advance.

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

Re: Set table width

On 2003-12-08, xo55ox <xo55ox@hotmail .com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I am new with php. I need to loop through some variables and place
> them in 3 columns. I couldn't align the header line and each result
> line. How do I make the table in uniform size in each column? And how
> do I wrap to new line if one of the variable is too long?[/color]

This is a HTML question meaning there are better for these questions.

(the text in a column is auto-wrapped, so you don't need to break up the
lines yourself)

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[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Set table width

I noticed that Message-ID:
<br1caq$26mcqg$ 3@ID-188825.news.uni-berlin.de> from Tim Van Wassenhove
contained the following:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> I am new with php. I need to loop through some variables and place
>> them in 3 columns. I couldn't align the header line and each result
>> line. How do I make the table in uniform size in each column? And how
>> do I wrap to new line if one of the variable is too long?[/color]
>
>This is a HTML question meaning there are better for these questions.[/color]

But he needs to know how to write the php to give him three columns. I
use a counter and use the modular operator to find the remainder when
divided by three. Then a simple if statement is used to either finish
the row or continue it.

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[Tim Van Wassenhove]

Re: Set table width

On 2003-12-08, Geoff Berrow <blthecat@ckdog .co.uk> wrote:[color=blue]
> I noticed that Message-ID:
><br1caq$26mcqg $3@ID-188825.news.uni-berlin.de> from Tim Van Wassenhove
> contained the following:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> I am new with php. I need to loop through some variables and place
>>> them in 3 columns. I couldn't align the header line and each result
>>> line. How do I make the table in uniform size in each column? And how
>>> do I wrap to new line if one of the variable is too long?[/color]
>>
>>This is a HTML question meaning there are better for these questions.[/color]
>
> But he needs to know how to write the php to give him three columns. I
> use a counter and use the modular operator to find the remainder when
> divided by three. Then a simple if statement is used to either finish
> the row or continue it.[/color]

Sorry, i misunderstood the question.

If he's going to fill the tables

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

then it's more efficient to use a counter, without modular operator.

while (data available) {
$counter = 0;
echo "<tr>";
while (data available && $counter < $columns) {
echo "<td></td>";
$counter++;
}
echo "</tr>";
}

Filling the tables as
1 4 7
2 5 8
3 6 9

He should first determine the number of rows ($rownum = #data / # columns wanted)
and then make rows as
<tr><td>$counte r+0*$rows</tid><td>$counte r+1*$rows</td><td>$cnt+2*$ row</td></tr>
(Off course this can be optimised, as $rows is known.)

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