[SOLVED]array() problem

[darkcarnival]

hi,

I have 3 variables that are comming from a loop, when i output this, it slams the items in one shot.

for example:

id-name
1-test
2-help
3-foo

would output as

testhelpfoo
123

how do i kill off this pattern?

thanks

[theironchef]

can you post a little code? the loop and variables perhaps?

[darkcarnival]

yea i can do that:

[code]while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc ($board_query)){
$board_id .= $row['id'];
$board_name .= $row['Board'];
$board_description .= $row['Description'];
}
$board_vars = array($board_id, $board_name, $board_description);[/code]

[kenrbnsn]

When you use the concatenation operator, " . ", it puts strings together with no separators. How do you want the output to appear?

Ken

[darkcarnival]

i want each value from the loop to be on its on line ;)

right now it combines ythem together.

couldnt I do something like use explode() or something to do this?

[.josh]

this isn't even a php problem it's an html problem. how about throwing in some

[code]<br>[/code]

tags.

p.s. - moving to html forum.

[darkcarnival]

um its a php problem Crayon Violent,

i already tried that and it didnt work.

[.josh]

okay..i am assuming you are trying to do something like this (since you (still) haven't shown you're code):

[code]
$board_vars = array($board_id, $board_name, $board_description);
foreach ($board_vars as $val) {
  echo $val;
}
[/code]

is that about what you're code looks like? Then do this:

[code]
$board_vars = array($board_id, $board_name, $board_description);
foreach ($board_vars as $val) {
  echo "$val </br>";
}
[/code]

I'm not tryin' to be rude or nothin'. You just need to show your code if you expect people to accurately help with the problem. 

P.s. - I still insist that it is not a php but an html problem.  Unless you have some conditions or something that prevents your (tried) html code from being output: but again, show some code.

[darkcarnival]

i did show you the code ;)

[code]while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc ($board_query)){
$board_id .= $row['id'];
$board_name .= $row['Board'];
$board_description .= $row['Description'];
}
$board_vars = array($board_id, $board_name, $board_description);[/code]

that is what the function does ;)

now adding a br tag will just make the output worse.

example of it is:

<a href="link.php?id=1(newline)2(newline)3(newline)">link1(newline)link2(newline)link3(newline)</a>

it all should be it's own link, which is my present issue.

the full code is too lengthy to post here so im only posting the code thats causing the problem.

[wildteen88]

If you want each row to createe a separate link then your whole while loop is wrong. It should be like this:

[code]while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc ($board_query)){
$board_id = $row['id'];
$board_name = $row['Board'];
$board_description = $row['Description'];

echo '<a href="link.php?id=' . $board_id . '">' . $board_name . '</a><br />';
echo '<span style="font-size: small">' . $board_description . '</span><br /><br />';

}[/code]

That should now print out a link for each board with its description.

[darkcarnival]

ok I'll try that

hopefully that'll solve my problem.

[Renlok]

it is a html problem if you print it like
[code]
$board_vars = array($board_id, $board_name, $board_description);
[/code]
its obviously going to come out in one line as theres nothing showing it has to print onto the next line.

[darkcarnival]

i was trying to do something but it looks like i cant do it the way i want to do it.

i got it working the way i want now, thanks to those who helped.

btw it was both a PHP & HTML problem :P

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