stuff appearing in the wrong place

Anon

I'm using a php script to list items from a database, the file is an include for another file, however there seems to be a bug, some of the print statements in the include appear before some of the statements of the calling file!!! how is this possible and how do I prevent it

you can see this at:

www.palmerauctioneers.com/listingstst.php?subtype=1&&x=0&&y=5

The text [0-5][5-9] shoud appear after the line "Sale Listing" very bizarre!!!

Regards
Ciaran

Anon

it could be that you are echo()'ing the text in your include() file. and where you define the include() in your running file, it will execute everyting from the include() file then move ahead.

if you want to prevent this, then dont use echo() or print in your included file, but instead, if the value is in function then use return $result; where the text output is in $result. and then call the function name in your running file, which will then output the text in appropriate position.

hope i havent confused you even more..

Anon

...not bizarre at all...

Problem has nothing to do with PHP; it's the HTML you script produces. If you look closely at the resulting HTML, the "[0-5]" and "[5-9]" are not between <TD> and </TD> tags. Since you are nesting tables, most browsers will interpret that text as being part of the outer table, not part of the inner table as you want.

Set your <TABLE> tags to BORDER="1" and you will see what I mean.

-- Rich Rijnders
-- Irvine, CA US