Correct way to create a table within <?php ?>

[NAmeviolated]

 

Had some great help yesterday, but I'm stuck using <?php ?> on every line, thanks to Joomla

 

Anyway, I'm trying to create a table, and it doesn't seem to be working, to create it, what is the correct format?

 

<?php <table width='400px' border ='1'>; ?>  ??

 

output will be put out on a per line within a if statement, which works, just the framing of the table and tr and td seem to be eluding me.

 

Thanks

[voip03]

<?php

echo'<table width='750' border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='1'>
			 <tr>
    			<td> This is my Table</td>
  			</tr>
	</table>';
?>

[trq]

HTML doesn't mean anything to php, you need to put your html in a string, then echo that string.

 

<?php echo "<table width='400px' border ='1'>"; ?>

[Nodral]

Or alternatively come out of your <?php ?> tags and just put pure HTML in then reopen you tags as and when you need to.

 

ie

<?php

/* Some php code defining variables, functions etc etc*/

?>
<table>
<tr><td>blah blah <?php echo $variable ?> blah </td></tr>
</table>
<?php 
// more php code

?>

[MasterACE14]

or use the heredoc syntax:

echo <<<TABLE
<table width='750' border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='1'>
			 <tr>
    			<td> This is my Table</td>
  			</tr>
	</table>
TABLE;

[NAmeviolated]

HTML doesn't mean anything to php, you need to put your html in a string, then echo that string.

 

<?php echo "<table width='400px' border ='1'>"; ?>

 

Thanks, think this is what I'm after as I can't get outside the php brackets

[khavelka20]

@MasterAce preach on ! Heredoc is probably the single most useful tool in PHP!!!!