PHP using an HTML table

[Zama]

I have come up to a brick wall with this one. I know that you can create a table when you link up to a database, but I dont have many items that I need to place on the site and I have all but scripted everything else. So the problem is I need a way to make a new row and colums in an existing table when I have an item with more than one feature. I have several functions that alow me to fill areas of my table, which is also giving me problems.

ex:

function bitem() { 
switch($_GET['item']){
    case 'item1':
        print "AER46";
    break;
    case 'item2':
        print "DSESC";
    break;
	    case 'item3':
        print "CR25";
    break;
	    case 'item4':
        print "ET56";
    break; 
	}
}

function descp() {
switch($_GET['item']){
    	case 'item1':
        	print 'easel';
		break;
    	case 'item2':
        	print 'Base is 25" W x 20" D x 22" H Overall height is 46"'; 
		break;
	    case 'item3':
        	print '64" H x 25" W';
    	break;
	    case 'item4':
        	print '24" W x 56" H x 52" L';
    	break; 
	}
	}

function htitle() {
switch($_GET['item']){
    case 'item1':
        print "Adjustable Easel with Rack";
    break;
    case 'item2':
        print "Double-Sided Easel with Storage Cabinet";
    break;
	    case 'item3':
        print "Chart Rack";
    break;
	    case 'item4':
        print "Easel";
    break;
}
 }

 function mpic() {
 switch($_GET["item"]){
case 'item1':echo "/products/easel_rack.jpg";
break;
case 'item2':echo "/products/DS_easel_w_storage.jpg";
break;
case 'item3':echo "/products/chart_rack.jpg";
break;
case 'item4':echo "/products/wide_easel.jpg";
}
}

function price() {
switch($_GET['item']){
    	case 'item1':
        	print '155.00';
		break;
    	case 'item2':
        	print '280.00'; 
		break;
	    case 'item3':
        	print '163.00';
    	break;
	    case 'item4':
        	print '189.00';
    	break; 
	}
	}

	function lbs() {
switch($_GET['item']){
    	case 'item1':
        	print '135';
		break;
    	case 'item2':
        	print '155'; 
		break;
	    case 'item3':
        	print '133';
    	break;
	}
	}

This is all of the functios that I have and this is the table set up:

                 

<td><p> <?php bitem(); ?> </p></td>
<td><p> <?php descp(); ?> </p></td>
<td><p> <?php lbs(); ?>  lbs.   </p></td>
<td>&nbsp;  </td>
<td><p> $ <?php price(); ?>  </p></td>
<td><input type="submit" value="Buy!" ></td>
 

This is what I have so far and it works just like this, but I need ex: item3 to have two items in the same variable and I need the table to clone it self.

There must be a way to do this.
Please any help is welcome, push me in the right direction as long as it dosen't invole a database. I know it would be easyer but the server is not the best "that is all I will say about them".

Thanks

[leatherback]

Hi,

I am not sure whether you have chosen the easiest path. As you said. A database would make it a lot easier.

Anyway.

You could use an array perhaps?

$item2 = array(
0 =>'easel',
1 =>'Pillar');

Then, you could write a small function print_value:
function print_value($variable)
  {
  if(is_array($variable))
    {
     foreach($variable as $value)
       {
       print($value);
       }
    }
  else
    {
    print($variable);
    }
}

//you could actually stor all of your values in an array, and just echo out the array values.

$items = array();

$items[1] => array(
'value'=> "22,50",
'Label'=> "easel");

$items[2] => array(

yadieyadie..

[Zama]

Thanks leatherback using an array will help me with the problem that I am having with all of the differant variables and sub variables. It still dosen't help me with the root of my problem, which is I don't know how to change the HTML table where I am calling my vars to a PHP "HTML table" so that I can copy it as many times that I need to on the same page (or use it in one of my functions or an array). So lets say that I have four vars that I want to place in this table and as of right now because the table is static I can only call one of my vars. I might not have explained the problem as well in my origanal post. Thanks everyone.

[Zama]

getting closer, I have my table in php and I have an arrays in an array.

However I just don't know how to pull my value out of the array. I have a variable set in the http://www.schoolconceptsinc.com/test.php?item=item1. This was working when I had it set up in case statements, and now I have no clue how to link it to my array and put it into the correct place.

Heres some of my code:

$arritem = $_GET['item'];
$one=$_GET['item=item1'];
$two=$_GET['item=item2'];
$three=$_GET['item=item3'];
$four=$_GET['item=item4'];
$five=$_GET['item=item5'];


$arritem = array(
	$arritem[$one] => array(
		$bitem=> "AER46",
		$descp=> "easel",
		$htitle=> "Adjustable Easel with Rack",
		$price=> "155.00",
		$lbs=>"135",
		$mpic=>"/products/easel_rack.jpg"
	),
	$arritem[$two] => array(
		$bitem=> "AER46","AER48",
		$descp=> '46" easel','48" easel',
		$htitle=> "Adjustable Easel with Rack",
		$price=> "155.00","185.00",
		$lbs=>"135","146",
		$mpic=>"/products/easel_rack.jpg"
	),

and so on..........


function mytable(){
echo '<td><p>';
 // this is where I need to put the value $bitem
echo '</p></td>
         <td><p> </p></td>
         <td><p> lbs. </p></td>
	 <td>&nbsp;  </td>
         <td><p>$  </p></td>
         <td><input type="submit" value="Buy!" ></td>';
                }

I am just stuck on this fact and I have a feeling that I am going to get stuck on the if statement so that I can make multipule tables when I have more than one value, but that a question for another time. Right now I at a loss for what to do.

Thanks all.