HTML table, cell color using PHP

Anon

I'm using WIN98/Apache/MySQL.

I have a calendar that uses a MySQL database to select the appropriate month. What i need to do is have a specific column a specific color (I suppose I need to specify the corresponding cell in each row).

any ideas?

Anon

this may sound obvious but hae you tried <TD bgcolor=bbbbbb> ?

aruel

Yes, the only way to go around your problem it is to specify a backgroung color to each cell you want to colo in your table.
You can use the BGCOLOR property of the TD tag, or what i would do is to use a stylesheet with a class that holds all the format properties for those cells (like bgcolor, fontcolor, size effects and so on)...
In this whay, you may be able to handle several format properties for the HTML elements without the need of specifing all the properties for each tag in the HTML code...

EJ: supouse you want that cell to be red in the background and a blue color for the text, as well as a Verdana font type with a size of 12pt...

Within the same html (you can separate the style on an extra css file)...

<head>
<title>whatever</title>
<style>

.sel_cell {
background-color:red; 
font-color:blue;
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 12pt
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
common cell
</td>
<td class='sel_cell'>
cell formated with the style seted up in the class <i>sel_cell</i>
</td>
</tr>
</body>

Hope this could be usefull for you... any problems dont doubt to contact me...

Regards...

Ariel

brainiac

First I'd like to correct Ariel on the way the CSS is commented (sorry, couldn't help it 😉
<LectureMode>
Normal HTML comments are like this:


CSS comments are like this:
/ This is a comment /
/
This is a comment
/
There is a variety of ways to comment within PHP:
Singleline comments:

This is a comment

// This is a comment
Multiline is like in CSS:
/
This is a comment
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</LectureMode>

But enough of this 🙂

I am not sure id I understood the question correct from phil, so here is en expanded version of Ariel's 😉 (with comments)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>My list</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<?php
for ($i=1;$i<=10;$i++) { / Let's count to ten (10) /
$rowClass = $i % 2; / Checking if it's an even or odd row /
if ($rowClass) {
$rowClass = "oddRow";
}
else {
$rowClass = "evenRow";
}
print "<tr class=\"".$rowClass."\"><td>This is row number ".$i."</td></tr>"; / Printing the page to the browser /
}
?>
</table>
</body>

Anon

Is there a code to change the border around a photo or graphic from black to something else?