creating tables with echo

Anon

Is there a more efficient way of generating tables than the way I do it?

What I do is, create the look of the table that I want in Dreamweaver, then cut & paste the table code into my text editor, then I just put 'echo' in front of every line.

It works, but is there a better way?

Thanks,
MT

icd_lx

With the vagueness of your question, all that i can think of is using loops and conditionals to generate tables based on data, not your copy-over-exactly method.

Example :
echo "<TABLE>";
for($i=1; $i<=$max; $i++)
{
echo "blahblah";
}
echo "</TABLE>";

is that what you wanted?

craigh

multi column tables would look like this:

echo "<TABLE BORDER=1>";

for($i=1; $i<=$max; $i++){
echo "<TR>";
echo "<TD>column1blah</TD>";
echo "<TD>column2blah</TD>";
echo "<TD>column3blah</TD>;
echo "</TR>";
}

echo "</TABLE>";

BTW - I figure <TR> stands for "Table Row"
anyone know what <TD> stands for? It is obviously not "Table Column" !!

Anon

I asked this question because I just created a table today that was fairly large and complex. It was about 35 lines that I had to put the echo in front of everything. When retrieving info from a database, I just use a while loop to generate the colors and table cells. But oh well.. 🙂

Anon

I believe <TD> stands for "Table Data"...

I think I read that in an O'Reilly book once.