Re: Re: PHP programming strategy

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:32:48 +0100, ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: ....... >> How, for example, could I otherwise achieved the following effect, which displays an image >> with a border slightly darker than the background, and with the title and subtitle inside >> the border? >> >> <table class="pfm"> >> <tr> >> <td> >> <img src="Images/Nxxxxx.jpg" width="210" >> height="300"> >> <p class="nrmltextn">Yanni Nxxxxx </p> >> <p class="notetextn">Sally Riordan Scholarship, 2007- </p> >> </td> >> </tr> >> </table> >> ........ >Well, your above example would just become: > ><div class="pfm"> > <img src="Images/Nxxxxx.jpg" width="210" height="300"> > <p class="nrmltextn">Yanni Nxxxxx </p> > <p class="notetextn">Sally Riordan Scholarship, 2007- </p> ></div> > >Notice how the amount of code has dropped immediately! Yes - all of 22 bytes! > From there, you >can use CSS to target whatever element you need to within the .pfm >class. As I already do with the table. The divs look interesting, but the tables work, so I will look into them when everything else is fixed - if I am still alive! >The images on your site would not had had titles if you'd omitted alt >tags. Where would the browser find them from to display to a blind >person? The titles (eg Yanni xxxxx, above). >True, CSS does not have constants, but that is why you create them to >cascade, so that elements inherit features from their parents. A bit >like classes in programming, where everything is either inherited from >the parent object (tag) or overridden with a new style. I can completely change the color scheme and appearance by loading a new definition file, but this would be much simpler if I did not have to encode the values into the CSS: #bodystyle { <?php if ($bck_grd_img != '') { echo ('background-image:url('.$bck_grd_img.');'); } else { echo (' background-color:#'.$bdy_clr.';'); } ?> font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: #<?php echo ($txt_clr); ?>; >Also, if you're looking for diagnostics, give Firebug a try, as it >really excels at this sort of thing. You can change styles on the fly >from within the browser window, without needing to refresh the page! Thanks, I will look into it.