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[ZombieToast]

I'm really hoping someone can help me out here.  My fiancé and I are looking for a house and I thought it would help make things a bit more convenient if I created a mini-site for us to keep track of properties that we want to consider.  I could easily do this with HTML, but I wanted to put some of my [limited] PHP knowledge to use.  At the moment, I have three pages: a form for entering house information, a php script to process the form (and add it to a text file on my server), and a page to display all entered houses.

 

Most of it is actually working how I want it to, but I'm having a few minor problems.  The main one is that I can't get my table to display properly.  See here for an example.  I want each row to extend to the full width.  Is there a better way to build my table?  Another big problem is that if I enter more than one line into my Notes textarea box, it screws everything up (take a look at my page to see what I mean).  Is there a way to fix this without having to manually enter a line break when I type in the data?

 

At the moment, those are the only issues I'm having.  The main one I would like to fix is the display of my tables.  Thankfully, the script itself works without any issues (other than the Notes textarea that I mentioned).  Here is the script from my showhouses.php page...

 

$HouseArray = file("houselist.txt");
$HouseArray = array_unique($HouseArray);
sort($HouseArray);

for ($i=0; $i<count($HouseArray); ++$i) {
$Row = explode("__", $HouseArray[$i]);
echo "<table width='80%' border='1'>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Price:</strong> " . stripslashes($Row[0]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><img src='pics/" . stripslashes($Row[1]) . ".jpg'></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Park Name:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[2]) . "</td>";
echo "<td><strong>Address:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[3]) . "</td>";
echo "<td><strong>Phone #:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[4]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Built:</strong> " . stripslashes($Row[5]) . "</td>";
echo "<td><strong>MLS #:</strong> " . stripslashes($Row[6]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Monthly Dues:</strong> " . stripslashes($Row[7]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Bedrooms:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[8]) . "</td>";
echo "<td><strong>Bathrooms:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[9]) . "</td>";
echo "<td><strong>House Size:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[10]) . " sq. ft.</td>";
echo "<td><strong>Lot Size:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[11]) . " sq. ft.</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Notes:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[12]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Link(s):</strong><br /><a href='" . stripslashes($Row[13]) . "'>" . stripslashes($Row[13]) . "</a><br /><a href='" . stripslashes($Row[14]) . "'>" . stripslashes($Row[14]) . "</a><br /><a href='" . stripslashes($Row[15]) . "'>" . stripslashes($Row[15]) . "</a></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Seen in person?</strong>  " . stripslashes($Row[16]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Additional Notes:</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr>";
echo "</table><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br /><br /><br />";
}

[wrathican]

on the rows that only have one column on the <td> tags put this:<td colspan="2"> that might help.

[ZombieToast]

Thank you for the great suggestion.  I hadn't even thought of colspan!  Doing it exactly like that didn't fix my table, but adjusting/customizing the colspan of each section helped me get a nice clean look.  It doesn't look exactly how I would like it to, but it's much better and certainly good enough to keep.  Thanks again.

 

Now, if I can just figure out how stop the multi-line Notes from messing up my page, I'll be set.  If anyone's interested, here's my updated script...

 

$HouseArray = file("houselist.txt");
$HouseArray = array_unique($HouseArray);
sort($HouseArray);

for ($i=0; $i<count($HouseArray); ++$i) {
$Row = explode("__", $HouseArray[$i]);
echo "<table width='60%' border='1'>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='4'><strong>Price:</strong> " . stripslashes($Row[0]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='4'><img src='pics/" . stripslashes($Row[1]) . ".jpg'></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='1'><strong>Park Name:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[2]) . "</td>";
echo "<td colspan='2'><strong>Address:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[3]) . "</td>";
echo "<td colspan='1'><strong>Phone #:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[4]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='1'><strong>Built:</strong> " . stripslashes($Row[5]) . "</td>";
echo "<td colspan='3'><strong>MLS #:</strong> " . stripslashes($Row[6]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='4'><strong>Monthly Dues:</strong> " . stripslashes($Row[7]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='1'><strong>Bedrooms:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[8]) . "</td>";
echo "<td colspan='1'><strong>Bathrooms:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[9]) . "</td>";
echo "<td colspan='1'><strong>House Size:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[10]) . " sq. ft.</td>";
echo "<td colspan='1'><strong>Lot Size:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[11]) . " sq. ft.</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='4'><strong>Notes:</strong><br />" . stripslashes($Row[12]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='4'><strong>Link(s):</strong><br /><a href='" . stripslashes($Row[13]) . "'>" . stripslashes($Row[13]) . "</a><br /><a href='" . stripslashes($Row[14]) . "'>" . stripslashes($Row[14]) . "</a><br /><a href='" . stripslashes($Row[15]) . "'>" . stripslashes($Row[15]) . "</a></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='4'><strong>Seen in person?</strong>  " . stripslashes($Row[16]) . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='4'><strong>Additional Notes:</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr>";
echo "</table><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br /><br /><br />";
}

[ZombieToast]

I doubt anyone cares, but I found the solution to my main issue. I thought the problem was with reading the array, but it was actually with writing it.

 

On the array-writing page, I had this variable:

 

$Notes = addslashes($_GET['notes']);

 

Underneath it, I added this:

 

$Notes = str_replace("\r\n", "<br />", $Notes);

 

And now it does exactly what I need. When a return is entered, str_replace converts it to a line break. This was giving me so much trouble because instead of doing this, I was trying to make my script read the \r\n returns and interpret them as line breaks. How silly of me.