printing issue

[sayedsohail]

Hi everyone,

 

I had to print decription on a pre-printed form against items in a serial number on a specific postion i.e,

 

Pre-printe form

 

Serial Number    Description
1.1                  if($row['title']=='1.1'){ echo "$row['description']";}
1.2                  if($row['title']=='1.2'){ echo "$row['description']";}
2.1                  if($row['title']=='2.1'){ echo "$row['description']";}
2.1                  if($row['title']=='2.2'){ echo "$row['description']";}
3.1                  if($row['title']=='3.1'){ echo "$row['description']";}
3.2                  if($row['title']=='3.2'){ echo "$row['description']";}
4.1                  if($row['title']=='4.1'){ echo "$row['description']";}
4.2                  if($row['title']=='4.2'){ echo "$row['description']";}

 

Can someone suggest any better method than this. 

 

Please advise.

 

Thanks,

[pocobueno1388]

Well...you are using more if statements than you need to, you only need one since you are doing the same thing for each one.

 

<?php

if ($row['title'] == '1.1' || $row['title'] == '1.2' || $row['title'] == '2.1' || 
$row['title'] == '2.2' || ...and so on){

   echo $row['description'];

}

?>

 

[sayedsohail]

thanks the problem is if 1.1 it has to print on row 1 and column 10 on the form.

and if 4.1 than it has to print on row 7 and columen 10.  I am just struggling to figure out how to achieve this.

 

thanks anyway.

[pocobueno1388]

Is there some sort of pattern to the numbers to where they should display? I don't understand how you got 4.1 should be printed on row 7 col 10.

[sayedsohail]

yes there is a pattern, titles in sequential order an the description should print against this order.  the $row['title'] and $row['descriptiion'].  But it is not necessary that data comes in sequential order, therefore i need to use if statment to see if there is any matching titles and than print on specific location row 1 to row 50 so on.

 

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

2.1

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.5

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.4

4.5

 

Thanks,

[xyn]

Can you show me the table your using. i know a solution

but seeing your table will help.

 

Regards.

[sayedsohail]

the table structure is:

 

id autoincrement

title varchar 10

description varchar 50

 

[xyn]

i mean the one your trying to display the data on.

if you're using a html table?

[sayedsohail]

this is the output of html table

 

Serial Number    Description

1.1                  xyz

1.2                 

2.1                 

2.1                 

3.1                 

3.2                 

4.1                 

4.2                 

 

so on.

[xyn]

kk well in your description on the HTML bit. put this

{1.1}

 

then in the php use

preg_replace("{1.1}",$row[description],$form); 

[sayedsohail]

well thanks for that, but i got 1.1 to 50.1 than in that case i had to write 50 times (preg_replace("{1.1}",$row[description],$form); ) which is same as using echo and if statement.