Some Issues

[Shaun13]

Ok, I have a script and I have information that a user enters being displayed. I have the information being displayed in tables, but if what you enter is longer than the table, the table gets wider and you have to scroll right to see the whole thing, how can i fix it? Here is the part of the script i am talking about.

 

if(isset($_REQUEST['viewtopic']))
{
echo "<table width='100%' border='0' align='center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1' bgcolor='#ffffff'>
<tr>
<td><table width='900' border='0' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1' bordercolor='1' bgcolor='#000000'>
<tr>
<td align='center' bgcolor='#ccddcc' colspan='2'><strong>".$rows2['title']."</strong>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor='#F8F7F1' align='center'><strong>".$rows2['authordisplay']."</strong><br>
<td bgcolor='#F8F7F1'>Date/Time : ".$rows2['datetime']."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor='#Ffffff' width='200'>User information will eventually go in here. Area under construction.</td>
<td bgcolor='#Ffffff' align='top'>".$rows2['content']."</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
<BR>";

$sql3="SELECT * FROM $tablereplies WHERE questionid='$id' ORDER BY answerid";
$result3=mysql_query($sql3);
while($rowsanswers=mysql_fetch_array($result3))
	{
	echo "<table width='100%' border='0' align='center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1' bgcolor='#ffffff'>
	<tr>
	<td><table width='900' border='0' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1' bgcolor='#000000'>
	<tr>
	<td bgcolor='#F8F7F1' align='center'><strong>".$rowsanswers['authordisplay']."</strong></td>
	<td bgcolor='#F8F7F1'>".$rowsanswers['datetime']."</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td bgcolor='#ffffff' width='200'>User information will eventually go in here. Area under construction.</td>
	<td bgcolor='#ffffff' width='700'>".$rowsanswers['content']."</td>
	</tr>
	</table></td>
	</tr>
	</table><br>";
	}

if(isset($myusername))
	{
	echo "<table width='400' border='0' align='center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1' bgcolor='#CCCCCC'>
	<tr>
	<form name='reply' method='post' action='index.php?action=reply'>
	<td>
	<table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'>
	<tr>
	<td valign='top'><strong>Post</strong></td>
	<td valign='top'>:</td>
	<td><textarea name='content' cols='45' rows='3' id='content'></textarea></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td> </td>
	<td><input name='topicid' type='hidden' value='".$id."'></td>
	<td><input type='submit' name='Submit' value='Submit'> <input type='reset' name='Submit2' value='Reset'></td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</td>
	</form>";
	}
elseif(!isset($myusername))
	{
	echo "<a href='index.php?action=login'>Login</a> to reply to topics!";
	}

$sql4="SELECT views FROM $tableposts WHERE id='$id'";
$result4=mysql_query($sql4);
$rows4=mysql_fetch_array($result4);
$views4=$rows4['views'];

if(empty($views4))
	{
	$views4=1;
	$sql5="INSERT INTO $tableposts(views)VALUES('$views4') WHERE id='$id'";
	$result5=mysql_query($sql5);
	}

$addview=$views4+1;
$sql6="update $tableposts set views='$addview' WHERE id='$id'";
$result6=mysql_query($sql6);
}

 

Any help?

 

~Shaun

[per1os]

Instead of setting the table width to be 100%  Set it to be a certain pixel amount. Generally for 800 res a width of around 650px is fine.

[Shaun13]

nope, that didn't work either.  ???

 

~Shaun

[per1os]

This is really more HTML than php my friend.

 

<table width='900' border='0' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1' bgcolor='#000000'>

 

That width of 900 can be screwing you, especially on a table inside another table. I would maybe fix that to something quite a bit smaller.

[Shaun13]

Nope, same result. And I suppose this could be HTML 

 

~Shaun

[per1os]

If it is because you are letting a string such as:

 

thisisareallylongstingwithnobreaksatallthatwilthrowoffthehtmlsettingsonthispagethisisareallylongstingwithnobreaksatallthatwilthrowoffthehtmlsettingsonthispagethisisareallylongstingwithnobreaksatallthatwilthrowoffthehtmlsettingsonthispage

 

You should look into

 

www.php.net/wordwrap

[Shaun13]

Ok, i checked out that wordwrap thing, thanks, but it isn't working for me. Heres what I have:

 

	$sql3="SELECT * FROM $tablereplies WHERE questionid='$id' ORDER BY answerid";
$result3=mysql_query($sql3);

while($rowsanswers=mysql_fetch_array($result3))
	{
	$replycontent=$rowsanswers['content'];
	$replycontentwrap = wordwrap($replycontent, 200, "<br />\n");
	echo "<table width='100%' border='0' align='center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1' bgcolor='#ffffff'>
	<tr>
	<td><table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1' bgcolor='#000000'>
	<tr>
	<td bgcolor='#F8F7F1' align='center'><strong>".$rowsanswers['authordisplay']."</strong></td>
	<td bgcolor='#F8F7F1'>".$rowsanswers['datetime']."</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td bgcolor='#ffffff' width='20%'>User information will eventually go in here. Area under construction.</td>
	<td bgcolor='#ffffff' width='80%'>".$replycontentwrap."</td>
	</tr>
	</table></td>
	</tr>
	</table><br>";
	}

[Shaun13]

Can anyone help me out?

 

~Shaun