How to create a list with PHP/HTML

windisch · 12-19-2005, 01:10 PM

I have a streaming radio website/request system, which was helped mostly by the great people here at LQ. I created a page that shows the request file (a simple text file). But the text displays like this:
song1song2song3......

What would be the easiest way to have it formatted like this?

song1
song2
song3

Or better yet?

1. Song1
2. Song2
3. Song3

Thanks,
Adam Windisch

titanium_geek · 12-19-2005, 01:14 PM

Sorry, not a php guru, but I do know my way around html. the code for a bulleted list is
<ul><li>song1</li>
<li>song2</li></ul>

which should give you
* song1
* song2
(it is indented)

simly change ul to ol for a numbered list.

windisch · 12-19-2005, 01:19 PM

I should clear this up. This is a text file that is changed on the fly, with user requests. I just want to use PHP to open the file and list it. Is what you described above the way to go?

paulsm4 · 12-19-2005, 01:33 PM

An HTML table is what you're looking for. It's easily generated by PHP (for example, use PHP to query a mySQL database, and write the resulting db rows/columns into an HTML table):

HTML example:

Code:

<table border="2">
  <tr>
    <th>Composer</th><th>Title</th></tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Beatles</th><th>Abbey Road</th></tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Bach</th><th>Two and Three Part Inventions</th></tr>
</table>

This example might be overkill (you might not need or want Pear:

B, for example), but it should point you in the right general direction:

http://www.kitebird.com/articles/peardb.html
<= In your case, you'd just "fopen()" the file and parse it a line at a time with PHP.
You'd bracket each line with a matching "<tr>...</tr>", and each column with a "</td>..</td>".