Cleaning up White Space

[cesarcesar]

Hello,

 

I am trying to clean up my "view source" code. Currently, due to the way i format my php/html code, the end viewable source looks really spread out with lots of white space between lines.

 

Is there a way via CSS or using /n that will clean my code up a little.

 

I have looked into Code Beautifing programs and am NOT intrested in them.

 

Thanks.

 

Example Code

<table width="100%" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 style="text-align:left;padding:px;font-size:12px;">
</tr>

	<?php
	$x=0;
	/*   get field names in Ranges tab  */
	$_conn2 = db_query("
	Select
	sale_type_field.sale_type_field_name,
	sale_type_field.sale_type_field_value,
	sale_type_field.calc,
	sale_type_field.calc1,
	sale_type_field.calc2
	From
	sale_type_field
	LEFT OUTER JOIN connector_sale_type_field ON sale_type_field.sale_type_field_id = connector_sale_type_field.sale_type_field_id
	Where
	connector_sale_type_field.sale_type_tab_id = 137 AND
	connector_sale_type_field.sale_type_id = 34
	Order By
	connector_sale_type_field.stf_display_order Asc
	");
	while($conn2 = db_fetch_array($_conn2)){

		/*   set underscored version of sale_type_field_name   */
		$sale_type_field_name = implode('_',explode(' ',strtolower($conn2['sale_type_field_name'])));

		/*   get sale type field names   */
		if ($_vars['sale_id'] <> '') {
			$_stfv = db_query("
			Select
			sale_type_subdivision.$sale_type_field_name,
			connector_sale.sale_id,
			connector_sale.ref_id
			From
			connector_sale
			LEFT OUTER JOIN sale_type_subdivision ON sale_type_subdivision.sale_type_subdivision_id = connector_sale.ref_id
			Where
			connector_sale.sale_id = '".$_vars['sale_id']."'
			limit 1
			");
			$stfv = db_fetch_array($_stfv);
			$sale_type_field_value = $stfv[$sale_type_field_name];
		}

		/*   if there is no saved value, set to default   */
		if ($stfv[$sale_type_field_name] == "") {
			$sale_type_field_value = $conn2['sale_type_field_value'];
		}

		/*   set lot array   */
		$number = "";
		$lot_sales = array('First Lot Sale ','Second Lot Sale ','Third Lot Sale ','Home Sale '); //

		/*   set some vars for determining what lot sale it is   */
		if (in_array(substr($conn2['sale_type_field_name'],0,15),$lot_sales)){
			$number = 15;
		}elseif (in_array(substr($conn2['sale_type_field_name'],0,16),$lot_sales)){
			$number = 16;
		}elseif (in_array(substr($conn2['sale_type_field_name'],0,10),$lot_sales)){
			$number = 10;
		}

		/*   re-set sale_type_field_name so that proper fielt type is set   */
		$sale_type_field_name2 = $sale_type_field_name;
		$sale_type_field_name = strtolower(substr($sale_type_field_name,$number));
		?>


		<?php  /*  if the field a calculation..    */ ?>
		<?php
		if ($conn2['calc'] != "") {

			if ($conn2['calc1'] == "") {
				$conn2['calc1'] = $sale_type_field_name2;
			}else{
				$_ft = db_query("
				Select
				sale_type_field.sale_type_field_name
				From
				sale_type_field
				Where
				sale_type_field.sale_type_field_id = '".$conn2['calc1']."'
				limit 1
				");
				$ft = db_fetch_array($_ft);
				$conn2['calc1'] = implode('_',explode(' ',strtolower($ft['sale_type_field_name'])));
			}

			/*   get low hi ave numbers   */
			$_avg = db_query("
			Select
			Count(sale_type_lot_sale.$conn2[calc1]) AS count_$conn2[calc1],
			Sum(sale_type_lot_sale.$conn2[calc1]) AS sum_$conn2[calc1],
			Min(sale_type_lot_sale.$conn2[calc1]) AS min_$conn2[calc1],
			Max(sale_type_lot_sale.$conn2[calc1]) AS max_$conn2[calc1]
			From
			sale_type_lot_sale
			Where
			sale_type_lot_sale.sale_id = '".$_vars['sale_id']."' AND
			sale_type_lot_sale.$conn2[calc1] <> ''
			limit 1
			");
			$avg = db_fetch_array($_avg);

			if ($conn2['calc'] == "lot absorption") {

				/*   total lot count minus   */
				$absorption = $lot_count['count_lot_nbr'] - $avg['count_'.$conn2['calc1']];
				$_value = $absorption;

			}elseif ($conn2['calc'] == "lot absorb perc") {

				/*   total lot count minus   */
				$absorption = $avg['count_'.$conn2['calc1']] / $lot_count['count_lot_nbr'];
				if ($absorption == 1) { $absorption = 100; }else{ $absorption = substr($absorption,0,4); }
				$_value = $absorption."%";

			}elseif ($conn2['calc'] == "lot count") {

				$_value = $avg['count_'.$conn2['calc1']];

			}elseif ($conn2['calc'] == "lot low") {

				$_value = $avg['min_'.$conn2['calc1']];

			}elseif ($conn2['calc'] == "lot high") {

				$_value = $avg['max_'.$conn2['calc1']];

			} ?>

			<?php if ($x == 0) { ?><tr><?php } ?>
			<th valign="top" align="right"><?php pv($conn2['sale_type_field_name']); ?>:</td>
			<td valign="top"><?php pv($_value); ?></td>
			<?php if ($x == 2) { $x=0; }else{ $x++; } ?>

		<?php } ?>

	<?php } ?>

	<?php for ($i = 0; $i < 2-$x; $i++) { ?><td></td><?php } ?>

</tr>
</table>

 

Example View Source

<table width="100%" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 style="text-align:left;padding:px;font-size:12px;">
</tr>







			<tr>				<th valign="top" align="right">First Lot Sale:</td>
			<td valign="top">2004-09-03</td>





							<th valign="top" align="right">No Closed Home Sales:</td>
			<td valign="top">-3</td>








							<th valign="top" align="right">Lots Sold:</td>
			<td valign="top">4</td>





			<tr>				<th valign="top" align="right">Last Lot Sale:</td>
			<td valign="top">2005-01-19</td>








							<th valign="top" align="right">Lots Left:</td>
			<td valign="top">-4</td>





							<th valign="top" align="right">Absob As Of:</td>
			<td valign="top">2005-01-19</td>





			<tr>				<th valign="top" align="right">Pct Absorb:</td>
			<td valign="top">%</td>





							<th valign="top" align="right">Homes Sold:</td>
			<td valign="top">3</td>




</tr>
</table>

 

 

[JJohnsenDK]

So when you go to browser-> view source, the example code is displayed, right?

 

Why would you want to clean this up?

 

And does these whitespaces include in both IE and MF?

[genericnumber1]

one of the code beautifying things that comes with php that said you don't care about...

 

http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/761

more reading... http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/read.php/19_11_0

 

I don't know why you say you want to clean up your HTML but don't want to use a script to do it? is that like driving without a car?

 

the reason you would want to clean up your source jjohnsen, is it just looks more professional, there really is no reason other than that.

 

ps. if you wanted to know why you have so many line breaks it's because you have them in your code.. all those line breaks outside of the <?php ?> tags show through in the browser.

[cesarcesar]

the EXAMPLE code is the actual code before browser output. the other is the browser output. i wans to remove the large amnount of new lines from the browser output code.

[cesarcesar]

i understand the line breaks are due to them in the HTML. i am just looking for a way to remove them after/while the code is being rendered.

 

I don't know why you say you want to clean up your HTML but don't want to use a script to do it? is that like driving without a car?

ok, very good point. my findings are that code beautifying programs are either stand alone and reformat to something other than my custom formating style, or they do not format HTML and PHP together. I did find, http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Beautifier but i still would like to do it all myself in the actual code if possible.

 

http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/761..... looks appealing.