How To Get Clear Print() Output?

abrogard

I have some code which displays a page as a .jpg according to user input and also displays html links to a previous page, next page, previous chapter, next chapter as so:

$out = "<img src=\"/images/{$pic}.jpg\" alt=\"Page {$page}\" />";

if ($prevChapter > 0) $out .= "<a href=\"/mybook.php?chapter={$prevChapter}\">Prev Chapter</a>";
and so on................

The trouble is that the links are all squashed up together, even one on top of another, so you can't see the complete working (i.e. 'next page') and don't know what link you'll get when you click on them.

I need some spacing or some newlines or something to sort it out.... anyone can help?

dagon

by default this wouldn't happen with html, i suspect there's a css style sheet that's the cause, can you provide a link to the output.

dewcansam

i am not sure if this could be it or not but,,, I have been working on image text on my linux server it works just perfectly then i decided to test it under xampp, running on windoze, and ALL the text is showing up squashed together. I have not done any investigation as to why it is doing that but it is. Same code, same files, same images, two different results.

Sry did not read the post correctly. ignore me :quiet:

abrogard

I haven't got it up on the web, just developing it on localhost.

I have a screen grab of it I will attach here. I am not using any style sheets. I build my pages with Kompozer, not using any style sheets myself and I'm not aware of Kompozer creating any defaults: I never upload any when I publish to the web.

dagon

I don't see them on top of each other, they are next to each other as the code would indicate. you can add spacing and line breaks with basic html.

abrogard

Yes, thanks for your reply.

I might have made a mistake interpreting what I saw when I thought they were on top of each other.

It doesn't matter now. The resolution was, as you say, line breaks and spaces in basic html. I can't pretend to anything but lazy and ignorant after failing to see and try that for myself. Sorry.

It is now working fine which has caused me to see I need another method of operation, or a refinement of this. And figuring it out is a bit beyond me even when I'm not lazy and google around and read, improving my ignorance as much as I can.

I will start a new thread about that.

Thank you for your help.

🙂