Echo spacing.

[joe1986]

Hi there,

 

I think its a bit of a simple one really but im a PHP newbie. Im trying to put a space in between the output values (shown below) and I thought the ."  ". in the middle would solve this problem, but it turns out not; and im pulling my hair out. The code I have for output reads:

 

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
   echo "  ".$row{'subject'}."  ".$row{'data'}."<br>";

 

and the output is displayed as:

 

"Subject Data"

 

I want to put more spaces in between these two values, e.g. "Subject _________ Data" (obviously without the _)

 

Could anybody please help me?

 

Cheers,

 

Joe

[.josh]

not a php issue... thats just how html renders it. Need to use the html code

  or the pre tag or add some other tag around your items and add padding or margin with css.

[premiso]

For it to display on a webpage, you would need to use   and strpad will be your best friend.

 

If it is to be displayed in a text file, strpad is still the way, but instead of   just use the regular space character.

 

 echo "  ". strpad($row{'subject'}, 10, " ") . $row{'data'}."<br>";

 

EDIT:

I remember having issues with this using the   so I am not sure if that will work in this case. If not just manually add them in.

[joe1986]

Thanks for the quick reply. It is to be displayed on a webpage within a html table. Im not quite sure where to insert the   or how to manually add the space in. I tried the strpad code you suggested, but no luck. any suggestions?

 

thanks again for the reply.

 

Joe

 

For it to display on a webpage, you would need to use   and strpad will be your best friend.

 

If it is to be displayed in a text file, strpad is still the way, but instead of   just use the regular space character.

 

 echo "  ". strpad($row{'subject'}, 10, " ") . $row{'data'}."<br>";

 

EDIT:

I remember having issues with this using the   so I am not sure if that will work in this case. If not just manually add them in.

[premiso]

   echo "  ".$row['subject']."   ".$row['data']."<br>";

 

Will produce 3 spaces between the subject and data. Also note that you have {} instead of [ and ] Arrays should be called using the [ isntead of {.

[joe1986]

Ahhh right, I get it. Thanks very much for helping, despite it not being a PHP problem.

 

Cheers,

 

Joe