Trouble Displaying/formating Data In A Table (Help)

[Chezshire]

I'm attempting to set display some data pulled from the database and present it in a table so i can get everything to line up correctly. When I attempt to form a table around it, the content hops out of the table or part of it does not display.

 

 

Working on the first row, it currently displays 'CITIZENSHIP: USA' //if ($citizenship) { echo "<strong>CITIZENSHIP:</strong> $citizenship";

 

If I try this, it displays 'USA', the citizenship 'vanishes'.

//if ($citizenship) { echo "<tr>

// <td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"><p><strong>CITIZENSHIP:</strong></p></td>

// <td width=\"10\"> </td>

// <td valign=\"top\"><p>" . $citizenship . "</p>

// </td></tr>";

 

 

<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">
<?php //if ($citizenship) { echo "<tr> //	 <td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"><p><strong>CITIZENSHIP:</strong></p></td> //	 <td width=\"10\"> </td> //	 <td valign=\"top\"><p>" . $citizenship . "</p> // 	 </td></tr>"; if ($citizenship) { echo "<strong>CITIZENSHIP:</strong> $citizenship"; if ($legalstatus) { echo ", $legalstatus"; } echo "<br >\n"; } else if ($legalstatus) { echo "<strong>Legal Status:</strong> $legalstatus"; } // end legal status if ($type=="administrator" || $type=="alumni" || $type=="faculty" || $type=="staff" || $type=="student") { $theseFields = array("placeofbirth", "maritalstatus", "occupation", "affiliation"); } else { $theseFields = array("placeofbirth", "maritalstatus", "occupation", "affiliation", "baseofoperations"); } // end if resident foreach ($theseFields as $thisField) { if (${$thisField}) { echo "<strong>" . ${$thisField . "Name"} . ":</strong> "; echo ${$thisField};
if (isset(${"former" . $thisField})) {
if (${"former" . $thisField}) { echo " (formerly " . ${"former" . $thisField} . ")"; } } // end if set
} // end if info } // end FOREACH if ($type=="administrator" || $type=="alumni" || $type=="faculty" || $type=="staff" || $type=="student") { ?>

</table>

 

 

 

 

ANy help would be greatly appreciated. I'm very much a newb.

Thanks to anyone kind enough to try to help me with this. I've been struggling with this all day and i really thought it'd tage a few minutes.

 

Thanks

[Muddy_Funster]

What are you doing with your if statememnt ( I've not had my coffee yet, so brain is still half asleep...)? I can give you a class to make a table from a dataset, but the dataset needs to be complete before it gets to the class. Also, what's your query look like?