Get Length of Page

[Anon]

I am feeding a string called $story from a database into an html page with three table datas such as this:

<table width = "600">
<tr>
<td width = "130">left side</td>
<td width = "5">spacer</td>
<td width = "465"><?PHP print $story; ?> </td>
</tr>
</table>

I want the left side <td> to add a bunch of this html: <P> &nbsp;
to push down the left side.

If you visit
http://travelbackpacker.com/demo/join.php3
(the site is is still under construction), you will see
that I have a rounded graphic at the bottom of the left td
and I want to push that all down using an appropriate number of
these:
<p> &nbsp;

Is there a to get the length of the page?
I have tried strlen, but that does'nt account for spaces, and line breaks
that are different for each $story variable.

I've tried something like this

	$str_length = strlen($story)

	$str_length = $str_length / 250;
	for($i=1; $i<=$str_length; $i++)
	{
	print "<P>&nbsp;";
	}

Any ideas?

[Anon]

I've used a SPAN before to position a bottom graphic:

echo "&lt;span style=\"position: absolute; left: 0\"&gt;";
echo "&lt;img SRC=\"images/bottom_bar.gif\" height=20 width=785&gt;";
echo "&lt;/span&gt;";

In my case, the graphic was rectangular, but there's no reason the concept couldn't apply to a graphic of any shape.

[Anon]

My suggestion would be to add an additional row at the bottom of the table just for displaying graphics like that one out. I think it is almost impossible to figure out the length of the story because you would also have to know various things about the browser it is being displayed on, such as resolution, window size, and font used.

[Anon]

Chad,

Thanks for the html tip, I guess I've gotten too into php and want to get fancy with everything.

sammy

Chad wrote:

My suggestion would be to add an additional row at the bottom of the table just for displaying graphics like that one out. I think it is almost impossible to figure out the length of the story because you would also have to know various things about the browser it is being displayed on, such as resolution, window size, and font used.