Formatting Output in Table using Printf and CSS

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June 18th, 2002, 05:58 PM

mrhague

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Formatting Output in Table using Printf and CSS

As you may guess, I am new to PHP and am experiencing some frustration with attempting to format data in a table. Here is my statement for the first row of the table, which contains the statement :

printf ('<td width=\"192\" height=\"14\" valign=\"top\" class=\"Header1\"><a href="%s">%s</a></td>', "$PHP_SELF?sort=dept_sort", "Department");

Problem is, the reference to the Class does not work. I get no errors, but the font does not get formatted as Header1. I have tried various iterations of this using <Span> outside of the <Td> tag to set the font, etc., but nothing seems to work. The font does not get set to the style in Header1. I have spent hours on this - can someone help me? Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks!

Marcie

June 18th, 2002, 06:35 PM

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Hi Marcie,

I have never really used CSS with PHP but I have a suggestion you might want to try.

Rather than print it all in PHP try exiting PHP into HTML and then re-entering PHP, like so...

PHP Code:


		
			
<?

// Lots of other loverly PHP code here

?>

<td width="192" height="14" valign="top" class="Header1">

<?

printf ('<a href="%s">%s</a></td>', "$PHP_SELF sort=dept_sort", "Department"); 

?>

Just an idea

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June 19th, 2002, 10:29 AM

mrhague

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It Works!

Thanks Ade,

Your solution worked just great! I'm finding that there are many different ways to do things in PHP!

Marcie

June 21st, 2002, 11:36 AM

rtaylor

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marcie,

You might as well apply SilkySmooth's idea to both lines
of code. Drop the printf.

PHP Code:


		
			
 ?>

<td width="192" height="14" valign="top" class="Header1">

<?

printf_('<a href="%s">%s</a></td>',_"$PHP_SELF_sort=dept_sort",_"Department");

?>

as in

PHP Code:


		
			
 ?>

<td width="192" height="14" valign="top" class="Header1">

<a href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?sort=dept_sort">Department</a></td>

?>

Hope this helps,
Robert

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