bg color and link - should be no brainer

[flemingmike]

2 questions... in my code, where would i put my style, ie. background colors, etc.

 

second question, how would i make the second column (url) an actual link?

 

here is my code:

<?php 
//this array contains sports and their URLs 
$sports = array( 
"MLB" => "http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/bottomline/scores",
"URL" => "http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/bottomline/scores"); 
$results = array(); 
foreach ( $sports as $sport => $url ) { 
  //get the page pointed to by $url 
    $page = file_get_contents($url); 
    //grab all variables out of the page 
    preg_match_all("/&([^=]+)=([^&]+)/", urldecode($page), $foo); 
    //loop through all the variables on the page 
    foreach ( $foo[1] as $key => $value ) { 
      //debug output, you can delete this next line 
      //echo "{$value} = {$foo[2][$key]}\t<br />\n"; 
    //this chain of IF/elseif statements is used to determine which pattern to use 
    //to strip out the correct data, since each sport seems to have its own format 
    //for the variables you'd "want" 
      if ( $sport == 'URL' && preg_match("/s_url\d+/", $value) ) { 
       $results[$sport][] = $foo[2][$key]; 
      } 
    elseif ( $sport == "MLB" && preg_match("/s_left\d+/", $value) ) { 
      $results[$sport][] = $foo[2][$key]; 
    }  
    }   
     
} 

//calculate the sport with the most number of rows 
$limit = 0; 
foreach ( $results as $countMe ) { 
  $limit = max($limit, count($countMe)); 
} 

//spit out the table with the right headers 
echo '<img src="mlb.gif">';
echo "<table border=1 cellpadding=2><tr><th>" . implode("</th><th>", array_keys($sports)) . "</th></tr>"; 
//loop until you reach the max number of rows, printing out all the table rows you want 
for ( $p = 0; $p < $limit; $p++ ) { 
  echo "<tr align=center>"; 
  foreach ( array_keys($sports) as $sport ) { 
    echo "<td>{$results[$sport][$p]}</td>"; 
  } 
  echo "</tr>"; 
} 
//kill the table 
echo "</table>"; 

 

thanks,

 

mike

[mrMarcus]

you would put your style(s) wherever you need them.  if you need your table to have a blue background, set your style in the table tag, and so on.

 

second question: if you don't know how to create HTML links, perhaps PHP is a little over your head.

[flemingmike]

i know how to make links, but the url column is being parsed from a url string and then placed in the table.  im not sure how to make it a link rather than just text.