simple table issue

hedgehead

Hi, i've looked around at various ways to put text fields
and other data and organise it into tables, I have a script (below)
which simply has a bunch of text fields, and a bunch of text labels next to them, I simply want to align them and the simplest way i could think of would be to put it all in a table. - one column for the labels of the fields and one column for the text fields, with a row for each one, e.g. Name: text field...

However whenever I try using the <TD></TD> tags my whole pages gets muddled up...

echo "<font color = \"#FFFFFF\" style=bold>Name:</font>";
echo "<input name='name' value=" . $row["CustName"] . ">";
echo "<br>\n";
echo "<font color = \"#FFFFFF\" style=bold>Surname:</font>";
echo "<input name='surname' value=" . $row["CustSurname"] . ">";
echo "<br>\n";
echo "<font color = \"#FFFFFF\" style=bold>Home Phone:</font>";
echo "<input name='hphone' value=" . $row["CustPhHome"] . ">";
echo "<br>\n";
echo "<font color = \"#FFFFFF\" style=bold>Mobile Phone:</font>";
echo "<input name='mphone' value=" . $row["CustPhMob"] . ">";
echo "<br>\n";
echo "<font color = \"#FFFFFF\" style=bold>Street Number:</font>";
echo "<input name='snumber' value=" . $row["StreetNumber"] . ">";
echo "<br>\n";
echo "<font color = \"#FFFFFF\" style=bold>Street Name:</font>";
echo "<input name='sname' value=" . $row["StreetName"] . ">";
echo "<br>\n";
echo "<font color = \"#FFFFFF\" style=bold>Suburb:</font>";
echo "<input name='suburb' value=" . $row["Suburb"] . ">";
echo "<br>\n";
echo "<font color = \"#FFFFFF\" style=bold>Postcode:</font>";
echo "<input name='postcode' value=" . $row["Postcode"] . ">";
echo "<br>\n";
echo "<font color = \"#FFFFFF\" style=bold>City:</font>";
echo "<input name='city' value=" . $row["City"] . ">";
echo "<br>\n";

I hope someone could help me with this, i appreciate your time, thanks

vaaaska

Originally posted by hedgehead
However whenever I try using the <TD></TD> tags my whole pages gets muddled up...

What does this mean?

Are you using table and row tags?

hedgehead

I just want to insert tags for a table somehow...
I dont know much about tables, but any code that will
fit my code to put it all in an organised table is what i need...

vaaaska

Well, you really need to learn how to use html if you want to write php for webpages. There are a billion ways to do this...this is just one of them...

$s = "<table>";

$s .= "<tr>";  // <- thanks madworm
$s .= "<td>Name:</td>"; 
$s .= "<td><input name='name' value=" . $row["CustName"] . "></td>";
$s .= "</tr>";

$s .= "<tr>";
$s .= "<td>Surname:</td>"; 
$s .= "<td><input name='surname' value=" . $row["CustSurname"] . "></td>"; 
$s .= "</tr>";

$s .= "<tr>";
$s .= "<td>Home Phone:</td>"; 
$s .= "<td><input name='hphone' value=" . $row["CustPhHome"] . "></td>"; 
$s .= "</tr>";

$s .= "<tr>";
$s .= "<td>Mobile Phone:</td>"; 
$s .= "<td><input name='mphone' value=" . $row["CustPhMob"] . "></td>"; 
$s .= "</tr>";

$s .= "<tr>";
$s .= "<td>Street Number:</td>"; 
$s .= "<td><input name='snumber' value=" . $row["StreetNumber"] . "></td>"; 
$s .= "</tr>";

$s .= "<tr>";
$s .= "<td>Street Name:</td>"; 
$s .= "<td><input name='sname' value=" . $row["StreetName"] . "></td>"; 

$s .= "<tr>";
$s .= "<td>Suburb:</td>"; 
$s .= "<td><input name='suburb' value=" . $row["Suburb"] . "></td>"; 
$s .= "</tr>";

$s .= "<tr>";
$s .= "<td>Postcode:</td>"; 
$s .= "<td><input name='postcode' value=" . $row["Postcode"] . "></td>"; 
$s .= "</tr>";

$s .= "<tr>";
$s .= "<td>City:</td>"; 
$s .= "<td><input name='city' value=" . $row["City"] . "></td>"; 
$s .= "</tr>";

$s .= "</table>";

echo $s;

madwormer2

You missed a <tr> tag after the <table> tag.