eliminate blank spaces

[Anon]

echo " from $location \n<br>";

I have two simple questions, I hope.
In printing results from a MySql dB, how do I change the line above to make the word "from" bold, but not the rest of the results. Also if their is no data in $location, how do I get it to NOT print a blank line. In other words, If I have 5 lines with no data to report, I do not want 5 blank lines taking up space on my page.
Thanks

[pnoeric]

to address your two questions:

1.

echo " <b>from</b> $location \n<br>";

note that <b> is just a basic html tag, like <br> ...

2.

change it to

if(strlen($location)) echo " <b>from</b> $location \n<br>";

that says 'if $location has any length, then do the following statement (echo...)'

best
Eric

[Anon]

Just a note.... Eric added &lt;b&gt; before the "from" and &lt;/b&gt; after the "from"

I wish this message board would change html characters and spaces properly 🙁

• Josh

[pnoeric]

oops, yeah, what Josh said ;-)

[Anon]

I knew it would be easy for you brains.
Thanks for your help.

[pnoeric]

hey, thanks for a good (easy) question <g>

best
eric