Tables and PHP

[tommychi]

The thing is, im making a final fantasy website, working on the bestiary right now. Now if you kno what final fantasy is, you would kno that bestiaries include a vast amount of information. Because of this, my HTML tables are quite big. An example would be http://ffcircuit.com/ff10/bestiarydisplay.php?monster=achelous

As you can see, the table is pretty big and complicated and imagine the html coding for that. Well, my question is, is there any way i can use php to make it easier for me to create this table instead of always constantly writing out <table><tr><td></td></tr></table> etc... Any suggestions, help would be appreciated.

[adamgeorge]

How is that page being generated?

How much (if any) of that data in the tables is pulled from a database?

If it is, you could just use loops, and other programing control structures to programattically build the tables in PHP code.

But just depends on where the data on that page is from. There may be other things you could do as well, but you'll have to give us some more information on the code behind the page. Maybe post some.

cya
-Adam 🙂

[Ravenous]

When you find yourself performing the same operation over and over again, write a function. Then just call the function with different parameters and you'll be well on your way to simplifying your code.