[RESOLVED] I think this is an easy one for ya.

unitedintruth

Hopefully this is an easy for a change, at least it seems that way.

I have a script that's purpose is company job openings and application process. The page is layed out with this table first and I will enter my confusion with ??? and the php part will be explained :

insert $cmd either list, details, or apply

</td>
</tr>
</table>

The problem is I need an to write an "if", "if else", "if else" I think but am not sure how, or if that is even correct. What I need is when $cmd =="apply" it needs to align="center", when $cmd =="details" it needs to align="center", but when $cmd =="apply" it needs to align="left". Anybody got any ideas please, suicide seems like the best solution but just not practical. Thanks.

DJ 😃

suntra

$arrAssociations	= array(
				'apply'		=> 'center',
				'details'	=> 'center',
				'list'		=> 'left'
			);
if(!isset($arrAssociation[$cmd])) {
	$cmd	= 'list';
}
echo '<table style="text-align:' . $arrAssociations[$cmd] . ';">
<tr>
<td>

insert $cmd either list, details, or apply

</td>
</tr>
</table>';

I supposed the double 'apply' was a mistake and that the last one was 'list' and was associated to 'align=left'...

Changed align="..." to style="text-align:...;"

If $cmd contains an unknown type, it is set to 'list' (left align)...

zingbats

<?
switch($cmd) {
case "apply":
$align = "centre";
break;
// etc etc
}
echo("<table align='" . $align . "'>");
?>

That should do it. It checks the variable,and assigns a different value to the variable $align depending on the value of $cmd. Then the value is echoed into the HTML 🙂

unitedintruth

I tried this:

No such luck, I get this error now:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/accountname/public_html/jobs/index.php on line 112

and line 112 in my editor is:

echo "align="center"";

zingbats

That's because you have a " sign in a " string

Use ' to surround the "center" or "left" word.

unitedintruth

apply is the one aligning left, rather than list. Do I just in that case trade all the lists and applys in the code?

suntra

<td class="jobstable"
<?php
if ($cmd =="List")
{echo 'align="center"';}
elseif ($cmd == "Details")
{echo 'align="center"';}
else {echo 'align="left"';}
?>

unitedintruth

Is there some way to attach my page of code to the post here. I have officially hosed it now. he he, It is too long to paste it in here, this was even calling me dirty words. I think this script and mine have been talking. he he, Thanks

zingbats

You could upload it as a text file to your hosting?

unitedintruth

the live php page is at:

http://www.aplusplumbingandseptic.com/jobs/index.php

and the text version is at:

http://www.aplusplumbingandseptic.com/jobs/index.txt

the problem is compounding on me a little. I found one major problem. The apply command is in its own table that sits in the other table when called. So it isn't calling the aply command in the same table as the other 2. Thank you very much for any help you can give me.

zingbats

<td> doesn't support the align property.

unitedintruth

If you follow those links again, click on a job post-> then click on apply, you will see what it is doing. It is lining the content, but not the table. I moved the entire php if else snippet from above to the table tag rather than the td tag, still the same outcome. Thanks again

unitedintruth

Anybody got any more suggestions on this?

unitedintruth

Wait a minute, are you telling me a table data cell cant have an align tag within. I know you guys are way over my head in your knowledge of this and I feel funny to argue with you, but I have been using <td align="left">, <td align="center">, and <td align="right"> tags for cell alignment since the first html table I ever wrote. If you could not align the cells differently what would be the point of even using <td> in the first place? If everything in the table had to align the same based on a table alignment there would be no point in anything but <table></table>. Don't ya think?

zingbats

Ok, so the <td> tag does support it! My apologies.

Your problem could be the new line that is generated in the HTML, and you may want to try something like:

<?
// SET $align value, but do NOT echoit.
//
?>
<td align="<?=$align?>">

That way, there is no new line.

unitedintruth

thank you, that worked like as dream.