How to add a style onto this array without having to repeat

[TeddyKiller]

There are two methods I know of doing this.

I have an array of titles used, and I'm wanting to add a span style onto them.

- I can either add the span into the array with the titles,

- I can put loads and loads of spans on the table the information is being displayed,

- I can put the span styles into either the same array, or a seperate array.

 

Method 1.

$detail = array(
'<span style="color:red;">Username</span>', 
'<span style="color:red;">Date of Birth</span>', 
'<span style="color:red;">Age</span>', 
'<span style="color:red;">Full Name</span>', 
'<span style="color:red;">Marital Status</span>', 
'<span style="color:red;">Interested In</span>',
'<span style="color:red;">Looking for</span>', 
'<span style="color:red;">Orientation</span>', 
'<span style="color:red;">School</span>', 
'<span style="color:red;">College</span>', 
'<span style="color:red;">University</span>'
);

 

Method 2-

$detail = array('Username', 'Date of Birth', 'Age', 'Full Name', 'Marital Status', 'Interested In', 'Looking for', 'Orientation', 'School', 'College', 'University');

echo '<table><tr><td> <span style="color:red;">' . $detail[1] . '</span> </td><td> Information here</td></tr></table>';

 

Method 3-

$detail = array('Username', 'Date of Birth', 'Age', 'Full Name', 'Marital Status', 'Interested In', 'Looking for', 'Orientation', 'School', 'College', 'University', '<spanstyle="color:red;">', '</span>');

echo '<table><tr><td>' . $detail[12] . $detail[1] . $detail[13] . '</td><td> Informationhere</td></tr></table>';

///////// OR ////////

$detail = array('Username', 'Date of Birth', 'Age', 'Full Name','Marital Status', 'Interested In', 'Looking for', 'Orientation','School', 'College', 'University');
$styles = array('<span style="color:red;">', '</span>');

echo '<table><tr><td>' . $styles[0] . $detail[1] . $styles[1] . '</td><td> Informationhere</td></tr></table>';

 

I'm wanting a simpler method to do these.. without doing something like method 1. Which is pretty messy.

If there isn't a simpler/better method, which one of the above methods would you use?

 

Thanks in advance

[Ken2k7]

Is the color always going to be red? If so, method 2 works perfectly. If not, then try this:

 

<style type="text/css">
.css_class_1 { color: red; }
.css_class_2 { color: green; }
</style>
<?php
$detail = array(
     'text1' => 'css_class_1',
     'text2' => 'css_class_2'
);
foreach ($detail as $key => $cssclass) {
     echo sprintf("<span class='%s'>%s</span>", $cssclass, $key);
}
?>

[Psycho]

Are the spans stlye properties always going to be the same? If so, then the spans should be in the HTML templates (i.e. Option #2). However, if they will be different for different records, then simply create a function to format the arrays:

 

function addSpans($array, $style)
{
    foreach($array as $key => $value)
    {
        $array[$key] = "<span style=\"{$style}\">{$value}</span>";
    }
    return $array;
}
  
$formattedArray = addSpans($originalArray, $style);

[TeddyKiller]

Thanks for the replies but it can't be a loop, otherwise I would do that. Method two.. might look a bit messy 10 lines down.

Here is the actual code, without the styles.

 

function profile_details($id, $profile) {
    $user = user_get_details($id);
    
    $detail = array('Username', 'Date of Birth', 'Age', 'Full Name', 'Marital Status', 'Interested In', 'Looking for', 'Orientation', 'School', 'College', 'University');
    
    $html_username = '<tr><td>' . $detail[0] . '</td><td>' . ucwords($user['username']) . '</td></tr>';
    $html_dob = '<tr><td>' . $detail[1] . '</td><td>' . $user['dob'] . '</td></tr>';
    $html_age = '<tr><td>' . $detail[2] . '</td><td>' . getAge($user['dob']) . '</td></tr>';
    $html_real_name = '<tr><td>' . $detail[3] . '</td><td>' . ucwords($user['name']) . '</td></tr>';
    $html_marital = '<tr><td>' . $detail[4] . '</td><td>' . ucwords($profile->rel_status) . '</td></tr>';
    $html_interestedin = '<tr><td>' . $detail[5] . '</td><td>' . ucwords($profile->interested_in) . '</td></tr>';
    $html_lookingfor = '<tr><td>' . $detail[6] . '</td><td>' . ucwords($profile->looking_for) . '</td></tr>';
    $html_orien = '<tr><td>' . $detail[7] . '</td><td>' . ucwords($profile->orien_status) . '</td></tr>';
    $html_school = '<tr><td>' . $detail[8] . '</td><td>' . ucwords($profile->school) . '</td></tr>';
    $html_college = '<tr><td>' . $detail[9] . '</td><td>' . ucwords($profile->college) . '</td></tr>';
    $html_uni = '<tr><td>' . $detail[10] . '</td><td>' . ucwords($profile->university) . '</td></tr>';
    
    return '<fieldset><legend style="font-weight:bold;">Basic Information</legend>' .
           '<table id="details" width="60%">' .
           $html_username . $html_dob . $html_age . $html_real_name . $html_marital . $html_interestedin . $html_lookingfor . $html_orien . $html_school . $html_college . $html_uni .
           '</table>' .
           '</fieldset>';
}

 

Note that- I will be adding in if statements. So that if user decides not to show a certain piece of info, it'll be hidden, or if information wasn't entered... to display as hidden etc.

[Psycho]

Just modify your function to accept a style parameter and apply that parameter to the output.

 

function profile_details($id, $profile, $style) {
    $user = user_get_details($id);
    
    $detail = array("Username", "Date of Birth", "Age", "Full Name", "Marital Status", "Interested In",
                    "Looking for", "Orientation", "School", "College", "University");
    
    $fields = array();
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[0]}</td><td>" . ucwords($user["username"]) . "</td></tr>";
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[1]}</td><td>{$user["dob"]}</td></tr>";
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[2]}</td><td>" . getAge($user["dob"]) . "</td></tr>";
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[3]}</td><td>" . ucwords($user["name"]) . "</td></tr>";
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[4]}</td><td>" . ucwords($profile->rel_status) . "</td></tr>";
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[5]}</td><td>" . ucwords($profile->interested_in) . "</td></tr>";
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[6]}</td><td>" . ucwords($profile->looking_for) . "</td></tr>";
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[7]}</td><td>" . ucwords($profile->orien_status) . "</td></tr>";
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[8]}</td><td>" . ucwords($profile->school) . "</td></tr>";
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[9]}</td><td>" . ucwords($profile->college) . "</td></tr>";
    $fields[] = "<tr><td style=\"{$style}\">{$detail[10]}</td><td>" . ucwords($profile->university) . "</td></tr>";
    $fieldList = implode("\n", $fields);

    $output  = "<fieldset><legend style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Basic Information</legend>\n";
    $output  = "<table id=\"details\" width="60%">{$fieldList}</table>\n";
    $output  = "</fieldset>\n";

    return $output;
}