Hanging text indent in php?

dbe1996

I'm not a developer. Just a blogger using phpNuke, who's trying to tweak a block on my main page. It's a blogroll block, and I've messed around with it enough to get the formatting close to what I ultimately want. But not quite (see the "My Bloglines" block in the righ sidebar at my site).

for ($i=0; $i<count($matches[0]) - 1; $i++) {
$content .= "<strong><big>&middot;</big></strong>&nbsp" . $matches[1][$i];
$content .= "</br>\n";
    }

Using the string "<strong><big>·</big></strong>&nbsp" I was able to get a nice bullet at the beginning of each hyperlink.

But my text is still not wrapping the way I'd like it to. I'd like to have a hanging indent so that the text lines up under each other with the bullet off to the left (like what an "LI" does in an unordered list).

Can anyone help me get this accomplished?

drew010

im not sure this is the best way but i couldnt think of anything else...

for ($i=0; $i<count($matches[0]) - 1; $i++) {
  $content .= "<table border=\"0\" align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\"><tr><td>";
  $content .= "<strong><big>&middot;</big></strong></td>";
  $content .= "<td>" . $matches[1][$i];
  $content .= "</td></tr></table>\n";
}

Weedpacket

Why not use

$content .="<ul>";
for($i=0, $count=count($matches[0])-1; $i<$count; $i++)
  $content.="<li>".$matches[1][$i]."</li>";
$content .= "</ul>";

In other words, why can't you use an unordered list instead of having to simulate an unordered list?

kburger

Originally posted by Weedpacket
In other words, why can't you use an unordered list instead of having to simulate an unordered list?

I'm glad you said it. That's exactly what I was thinking. Why not use the obvious solution?

Weedpacket

Originally posted by kburger
I'm glad you said it.

I dont' mind looking like a dimwit. I mean, there must be some reason, and this way the question gets asked without anyone else having to look like a dimwit.

All part of the service 😃

dbe1996

Well, I'm still having some trouble with that script. I tried plugging in Weedpacket's example but it didn't work for me. Would you guys be willing to take another stab at it? Here's the full code:

<?php
/************************************************************************/
/* Block-Favourite_Weblogs                                              */
/*                                                                      */
/* Copyright (c) 2004-2005 by Shahin Sheidaei                           */
/* publlished : March 28 2005 	                                        */
/* [url]http://www.sheida.com[/url]                                                */
/*                                                                      */
/* A simple block to show the updated blogs by blogrolling.com          */
/*                                                                      */
/************************************************************************/

//replace the value of $url with your own link from the code generator
//for more information about $url visit [url]www.blogrolling.com[/url]
$url = "http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=[myID]&target=_blank"; 
$num=1;
$blogroll = '';
if($my_blogroll = @fopen($url, "r")){
    while(!feof($my_blogroll)){
        $blogroll .= fgets($my_blogroll, 255);
    }
    preg_match_all("/(<a[^>]*>.*<\/a>)(\*)?/", $blogroll, $matches);
    for ($i=0; $i<count($matches[0]) - 1; $i++) {
          $content .= "<strong><big>&middot;</big></strong>&nbsp" . $matches[1][$i];
        if ($matches[2][$i] == '*') {
            $content .= '<img src="http://www.rightreadingroom.com/images/blogrolling.gif" alt="Updated!" hspace="5" />';
        }
        $content .= "</br>\n";
    }
	$content .= "</br>\n";	
        $content .= 'Powered by : <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bloglines.com//">Bloglines</a>';
}else{
	$content .= 'Powered by : <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rightreadingroom.com/">Sorry</a>';
    $content .= "BlogRolling is currently inaccessible.";
}
?>

It's originally Sheida's code for Blogrolling.com. But I'm customizing it for my Bloglines blogroll.

Strangely, most of the default blocks for phpNuke seem to rely on some kind of quasy list format (not real ordered lists). That's why I was trying to avoid going down that road originally. But I've created some additional blocks of my own now using real list format and have found that...

<ul style="margin-left: 1.5em; display: disc; line-height: 1.5em;">

gets them looking pretty good.

So, I'd like to try a real UL list in this script with that formatting, if possible. Like to take a stab at it?