PHP <table>-size problem

[goran660408]

I am trying to make a PHP-guestbook for my homepage.
The only thing left is to control the width of the "messages" column in the db-table shown so that long textmessages from visitors dont dissapear in the right side of the window, but instead continues on a new line in its row in the table:

Do you have any idea how to get around this?
code(that so far has not been working for me):

<?php
include("/home/b1316/public_html/php/dbconnect.php"[smilestopper]);

$link = mysql_connect($server, $user, $password)
or die("Kunde inte an#*$!a mot databasen: " . mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($db)
or die("Kunde inte välja databasen"[smilestopper]);

// Performing SQL query
$query = 'SELECT datum,avsändare,text FROM guests ORDER BY nr DESC';
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error());

print("<table border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2 bordercolor=000000>"[smilestopper]);
print("<tr><td width=50><b>Date</b></td><td width=50><b>From</b></td><td width=40><b>Message</b></td></tr>"[smilestopper]);

while($rad = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
print("<tr><td>"[smilestopper]);
print($rad["datum"]);
print("</td><td>"[smilestopper]);
print($rad["avsändare"]);
print("</td><td>"[smilestopper]);
print($rad["text"]);
print("</td><tr>"[smilestopper]);

}
mysql_free_result($result);

mysql_close($link);
?>

[leatherback]

Hi,

The sort of thing you are trying to achieve is best done using CSS (CAscading stylesheets). Please note that using tables merely for laying out you rpages is a bit outdated. You should be using <div id="message">The message here </div> instead, and define the layout in a styesheet (See also the CCS guide, through www.w3c.org):

div#title
{
border: 1px solid #445566;
width: 250px;
margin-right: 0px;
background-color: #ffffff;
}

Link to the stylesheet IN THE HEAD section of the page:
<link REL="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystylehseet.css" @media="screen">

[pnllan]

Here's something I've done in the past:

<div align="center">
<table class="guest">
<?php do {?>
<tr>
<td>
<hr />
<br />
<p><?php echo $row_guestbook['first_name'].' '.$row_guestbook['last_name'];?><br />
<br />Location: <?php echo $row_guestbook['location'];?><br />
<br /><?php echo $row_guestbook['date'];?><br />
<br /><?php echo $row_guestbook['comments'];?></p>
</td>
</tr>

<?php } while ($row_guestbook = mysqli_fetch_assoc($guestbook));?>
</table>
</div>

It's basically the same as what you are doing except that I use a 'do-while' loop where you use a 'while' loop.

However, I take a different approach with the (X)HTML. I, personally, use valid XHTML which relies on CSS for presentation formatting. In my CSS file, I layout presentation formatting for most of my XHTML tags and create ID's or psuedo-CLASSES as necessary (NOTICE the use of the psuedo-class 'GUEST' for the TABLE that is being 'filled').

Anyway, give it a try and let me know how it works out.