RE: [PHP-DB] Stretching Graphics

Here's one way (using a table in a table): <TABLE> <TR> <TD background="left.gif" width="8"><IMG src="blank.gif" width="8" height="1"></TD> <TD> <TABLE> <TR> <TD>Your<BR>page<BR>content<BR>goes<BR>here</TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD background="right.gif" width="8"><IMG src="blank.gif" width="8" height="1"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> The resulting tables look like this: +-+--------------+-+ | |+------------+| | | ||Your || | | ||page || | |L||content ||R| | ||goes || | | ||here || | | |+------------+| | +-+--------------+-+ The two end columns (labelled L and R) have their background property set to an appropriate image which will automatically tile vertically as many times as required to fill in the gaps. The image can be any size you want, but I recommend just 1 pixel high. Another alternative if you want solid colour borders without using an image: <TABLE> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#990000" width="8"><IMG src="blank.gif" width="8" height="1"></TD> <TD> <TABLE> <TR> <TD>Your<BR>page<BR>content<BR>goes<BR>here</TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD bgcolor="#990000" width="8"><IMG src="blank.gif" width="8" height="1"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> Hope this helps.... _____ ~ Richard Allsebrook ~ Applications Developer and Webmaster Easysoft Limited, No3 The Embankment, Leeds, LS1 4BJ http://www.easysoft.com <http://www.easysoft.com> The Home of Data Access Middleware "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." _____ -----Original Message----- From: Adv. Systems Design [mailto:asd_2000@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 3:11 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Stretching Graphics I guess my first message never made it! I have created a webpage template that frames the whole page content: ----- | | | | ----- However, it is hard to figure out how much "page" to make (by stretching the side elements (|)) on the return of queried data. I have gotten it to work more or less by using mysql_num_rows() to find out how many rows were returned, and ESTIMATING and average number of pixels needed for each row...(multiplying that by the number of rows returned and adding it to the image HEIGHT) ...as you can see, the "average" size for a row is not good, because it depends on how much text there is in the field, as well as if all 3 columns returned text (if one column was null, the other can take more space on the page). The solution I have sucks, because I have to go with the largest text field as the "average" and most of the time the page is longer than it needs to be! I have looked at mysql_fetch_lengths but have no idea how it works or even if it would help... Is there an elegant way around this or should I just abandon my "framed" webpage? Any pointers/thoughts appreciated... Thanks Luis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net