how can i create a table in php?

[Anon]

i have this talbe that i made in html.
but it has over 200 cells in it so it takes up a considerable amount of room, 65k, and i want to have the same talbe but make it a smaller file size to show on my webpage for speed reason for slower connections.

i heard that i can do this in php but i dont know how.

[craigh]

All that text will take up that much space regardless off what medium you use to present it.

If you use PHP and a database back end, the main page file will be considerably smaller, but it may still take as much time to download because it will need to access the DB, create the page and then display it.

If the data is static, the best solution is HTML - maybe you could break up the data over several pages to reduce load time.

[toma42]

You can do this using output buffering with the gz_handler. See the article comments here:
http://phpbuilder.com/columns/piergiorgio20010321.php3

[Anon]

hmmkay i see
well that is an idea that i might try
i could definetely break it up and do that since i dont really have any php skills
just heard of it like 2 days ago