RE: [PHP-DB] printf -- no newlines, tabs

The skinny of it is this: don't confuse yourself between a) what is slapped into the HTML code to format the code itself b) versus what is interpreted by the browser for displaying the HTML itself >-----Original Message----- >From: Carroll Barrett [mailto:cbarrett@inalt.com] >Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:29 AM >To: php-db@lists.php.net >Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] printf -- no newlines, tabs > > >Randy, > >>I can't seem to get printf to do newlines or tabs. Is there >anything wrong >>with the following code? >> >>while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { >> printf("%s\t%s\t%s\n\", $myrow["fname"], >> $myrow["lname"], >>$myrow["email"]); > >I *think* that the browser is just displaying each tab as a >single space. I *know* that the browser is displaying the >newline as a space. You could display the rows using an HTML >table, like this: > >echo "<TABLE>"; >while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > printf("<TR><TD>%s<TD>%s<TD>%s", > $myrow["fname"], >$myrow["lname"], >$myrow["email"]); >echo "</TABLE>"; > >Regards, >Carroll Barrett > > > >-- >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 >