Row and Cols in a table

dcjones

Hi Guys & Girls

Although I am new to PHP scripting I have a few years of HTML scripting. I am having problems understanding the concept of layout for data in a table.

I think I fully understand the ROW's part of it but when it comes to the COLS part I am having the problem.

If I want to produce a layout which has 6 ROW's and 4 COL's
how do I make the script understand that I want to use COL's.

Below is the type of scripting I am using. Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong:

 echo "<tr><td align=\"left\"><font face=\"arial\"size=\"-6\"color=\"red\">Name</td>";
 echo "<td><td><td><td><td><td><td><td><td>";
 echo "\n\t<td align=\"left\" background=\"../../Gif/Background.gif\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"arial\"size=\"-6\" >" . 
 $row["name"] .
"</td>\n<tr>";

echo "<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><font face=\"arial\"size=\"-6\"color=\"red\">Description</td>";
 echo "\n\t<td><td><td><td><td><td><td><td><td>";
 echo "<td align=\"left\" background=\"../../Gif/Background.gif\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"arial\"size=\"-6\" >" .
 $row["descript"] .
"\n<tr><tr>";

 echo "<td align=\"left\"><font face=\"arial\"size=\"-6\"color=\"red\">Address</td>";
 echo "\n\t<td><td><td><td><td><td><td><td><td>";
 echo "<td align=\"left\" background=\"../../Gif/Background.gif\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"arial\"size=\"-6\" >" .
 $row["street"] .
"\n<tr><td>";

And before you ask I am not sure why I am using all the <td> 's. It is the only way I can placee items where I want them. Any help would be welcome. BUT REMEMBER I AM NEW TO HTML INSIDE PHP.

Thanks in advance

DCJ

P.S. I have manuals on PHP but they don't explain the intergration of HTML tables.

cahva

I dont want to sound offensive, but do you really have years of html-scripting experience?

I mean, thats quite poor scripting you have there.

I dont know what do you mean by telling the script to use columns because its just basic html.

Ok, heres a table for you with 3 rows(you only got Name, Desc and Address) and 4 columns.

print "<table width=400 border=0 cellspacing=5 cellpadding=5>
  <tr>
    <td align=left><font face=arial size=-6 color=red>Name</font></td>
    <td</td>
    <td></td>
    <td>".$row["name"]."</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align=left><font face=arial size=-6 color=red>Description</font></td>
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
    <td>".$row["descript"]."</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align=left><font face=arial size=-6 color=red>Address</font></td>
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
    <td>".$row["street"]."</td>
  </tr>
</table>";
?>

BTW, you dont have to use so many <td>:s to make it look what you like. Just use width and make one column the size you want.
(So in this case you propably dont need 4 columns at all, just make one <td width='whateverulike'></td> between the cells to make space. Or change the first columns width for your needs and then you need only 2 columns.)

dcjones

Cahva,

Thanks for your help, I havejust been through a learning experience. I now see how HTMP fits in with PHP. I did not know it was that simple.

Many thnaks

DCJ