table inside a table

[malikah]

Hi, whats the easiest way to put a table inside a table. I'm using this for a calendar which changes dynamically depending on the year/month. I've already acheived putting the months inside a table and they cascade vertically down the page, but now I want each one of those month's tables to spread 4x3 on the page. Unfortunately, echoing new tables inside of a <td> tag means that I can't use "" quotes any more. Any suggestions?

[Yesideez]

I think you'll find you can use double quotes if you really want to - just a case of making a couple changes to adapt.

 

Not exactly sure what problem it is you're asking for help with...

 

What would the second table contain? When would it appear?

[revraz]

I think you can do what you want without a new table.

[Yesideez]

I think you can do what you want without a new table.

Depends how much information is to be displayed in the cell and how [complex] it is to be formatted.

 

EDIT: Just noticed - my 1,000th post!

[revraz]

I would still do it without a table.  People try to use tables for formatting when it makes more sense to use CSS.

[phpQuestioner]

you can still echo a table inside a table - just escape quotes or use a single quote.

 

example of double quotes:

 

<?php

echo "<table witdh=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"100%\" height=\"100%\">\n";
echo "<table witdh=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n"
echo "<tr>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "</tr>\n";
echo "<tr>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "</tr>\n";
echo "<tr>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh=\"25%\" height=\"33%\">\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "</tr>\n";
echo "</table>\n";
echo "</td>\n";
echo "</table>\n";

?>

 

 

example of single quotes:

 

[code]
<?php

echo "<table witdh='100%' height='100%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>\n";
echo "<td witdh='100%' height='100%'>\n";
echo "<table witdh='100%' height='100%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>\n";
echo "<tr>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "</tr>\n";
echo "<tr>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "</tr>\n";
echo "<tr>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "<td witdh='25%' height='33%'>\n";
// content here
echo "</td>\n";
echo "</tr>\n";
echo "</table>\n";
echo "</td>\n";
echo "</table>\n";

?>

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[Yesideez]

I don't want to get into a debate about whether to use CSS or tables for formatting, especially in someone else's topic - revraz, PM me if you're interested in a chat about it - I'm interested in your views on it if you use CSS for formatting.

[ToonMariner]

@phpquestioner

 

echoing that amount of html makes it very difficult to maintain - if you are using mcv methods then that situation would never occur. Alternatively (IMO of course) it is far better to break out of php for html and simply echo bits that are needed..

 

As to the OP you can use double quotes (indeed you should) - if you are doing this in a string simple use single quotes for the string - better stil break out of php to do it....

[phpQuestioner]

@phpquestioner

 

echoing that amount of html makes it very difficult to maintain - if you are using mcv methods then that situation would never occur. Alternatively (IMO of course) it is far better to break out of php for html and simply echo bits that are needed..

 

As to the OP you can use double quotes (indeed you should) - if you are doing this in a string simple use single quotes for the string - better stil break out of php to do it....

 

That is framework right - I do not design my PHP with OOP framework. PHP designers also use author comments as well; for the same purpose HTML comments are used - so it's not very difficult to maintain.

[malikah]

Ok, here's the code (copy & pastable):

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
.td_empty{
width:40px;
height:40px;
border-style:solid;
border-width:2px;
border-color:#CCCC99;
text-align:left;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
}
.td_full{
width:40px;
height:40px;
border-style:solid;
border-width:2px;
border-color:#CC9900;
background-color:#CCCC99;
text-align:left;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<?php

//-----2008-----//

$jan = array(0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,0,0);
$feb = array(0,0,0,0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,0);
$mar = array(0,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,0,0,0,0,0);
$apr = array(0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,0,0,0);
$may = array(0,0,0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31);
$jun = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,0,0,0,0,0);
$jul = array(0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,0,0);
$aug = array(0,0,0,0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,0,0,0,0,0,0);
$sep = array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,0,0,0,0);
$oct = array(0,0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,0);
$nov = array(0,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,0,0,0,0,0,0);
$dec = array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,0,0,0);

$month = array($jan,$feb,$mar,$apr,$may,$jun,$jul,$aug,$sep,$oct,$nov,$dec);

$monthPlus =- 1;

echo "<table>";
for ($s=1;$s<=3;$s++){
echo "<tr>";
for ($a=1;$a<=4;$a++){
echo "<td>";
for($yr=1; $yr<=count($month); $yr++){
$monthPlus++;
$dayPlus =- 1;
echo "<table>";
for($i=1;$i<=count($month[$monthPlus])/7;$i++){
echo "<tr valign=top>";
for($f=1;$f<=7;$f++){
$dayPlus++;
$show = $month[$monthPlus][$dayPlus];
if($show==0){
$show=" ";
echo "<td class='td_empty'>$show</td>";
}//end if $show
else{
echo "<td class='td_full'>$show</td>";
}//end else
}//end for $f
echo "</tr>";
}//end for $i
echo "</table>";
}//end for $yr
echo "</td>";
}//end for $a
echo "</tr>";
}//end for $s
echo "</table>";


?>
</body>
</html>

[anatak]

you can also use

echo '<table><tr><td width="45"></td></tr></table>';

 

It is something I do sometimes when I have html to echo

I wonder if there is a drawback about using singles quotes to echo your statements.

Please note that with single quotes your variables have to be outside the echo

 

example

$text_var='and some more text';

echo 'some text'.$text_var;

will output some textand some more text

echo "some text $text_var";

will output some text and some more text

echo 'some text $text_var';

will output some text $text_var

 

I hope it will help you

 

to malikah

very interesting will take a look at it too

thanks for posting this

 

[p2grace]

You could also use:

 

echo <<<HTML
You can use "double quotes" and 'single quotes' here, along with displaying $variables.
HTML;