[Pr0digy]

Hello everybody,

For 2 days (no joke) i have been trying to get a very basic script to work.
The script works, but whatever gets echo'd is in a HUGE font size.
The rest of the page listens to my .css file except the echo.

I started experimenting with just 1 line of code, it works but again the font size is huge and i can not get it smaller.

PHP Code:

<?php 
    echo "<font face=\"arial\"> <font size=-1>";
    echo;
        // echo $model;
        if ($model == YP4) echo "- BTO test";
    echo "</font>";
?>

This results in a huge "BTO test".

I need a line of code that forces the text to do what i say, i browsed hundreds of websites, tried pretty much anything i could find but no luck.

The only way i can get the text to size down is to adjust the table cell it's in, if i make the cell smaller... the text gets smaller. But that messes up the entire look of the page.

I have to add that i am making this page for my iPhone, everything behaves on the computer just not on the phone.

I'm pretty desperate here, hope anyone can help me.

[Pr0digy]

I played around with it some more, adding some pre-stuff i managed to get the size pretty much under control but now the Font isn't Arial anymore, looks like Courier.... sigh. Either way this seems like a whole lot of extra code just to change a font size so i'm fairly sure i'm going at it all wrong.

PHP Code:

<?php 
    echo "<font face=\"arial\"> <font size=2>";
    echo "<pre class='news.css'>";
    echo;
        // echo $model;
        // CPU Speed
        if ($model == YP4) echo "- BTO test";
    echo "</pre>";
    echo "</font>";
?>

[Nico]

I'm moving this to the CSS section since this isn't really a script request.

And try:

PHP Code:

<?php 

    echo "<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 11px;\">";

        // echo $model;

        // CPU Speed

        if ($model == YP4) echo "- BTO test";

    echo "</span>";

?>

... try to avoid <font> tags as they're deprecated.

[Pr0digy]

thank you!, will try and report back

[Pr0digy]

That worked great, thanks !!

There is just 1 problem... When i apply the same thing a few lines later... both don't listen to the font size i just set and do their own thing again. The code is identical just the cells the different codes are in differ in size.

Any thoughts ?

Here's the snippet:

PHP Code:

<pre style="white-space:pre;">
<table width="480" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="news">
  <tr>
    <td width="120"><strong>Processor Speed:</strong></td>
    <td width="360">
    <?php  
    echo "<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;\">"; 
        // echo $model;  
        if ($model == YP4) echo "        - BTO test"; 
    echo "</span>"; 
    ?>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</pre>

<pre style="white-space:pre;">
<table width="480" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="news">
  <tr>
    <td width="120"><strong>Processor Speed:</strong></td>
    <td width="360">
    <?php  
    echo "<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;\">"; 
        // echo $model; 
        if ($model == YP4) echo "        - BTO test"; 
    echo "</span>"; 
    ?>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</pre>

I also added the 'pre' thing to keep the tabs.

[Pr0digy]

Ok, i figured out if i make everything font size 7 it looks great on the iPhone.
Down side it it looks super small on the computer.

I hope there is a way to adjust this script so that both devices display it correctly else i have to make a separate script for the iPhone (all 5400+ lines of it) and adding stuff will take twice as long as i have to add it to both files.

Does anyone have any experience with PHP development for an iPhone website ?

[End User]

I think there are some simple ways to detect if you've got a mobile user...once that's done your code can make whatever changes are appropriate. I haven't tested this code but you can give it a whirl:

PHP Code:

<?php

if ( strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],'application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml')!==false ){

  // It's a mobile device, do something appropriate

}else{

// do whatever you normally do for a regular browser

}

?>

[Nico]

The iPhone has Safari as web browser, and it renders the pages just like the real Safari, including all Javascript/AJAX and CSS. So no wap...

These sites might help:
http://developer.apple.com/webapps/
http://www.juixe.com/techknow/index....ent-resources/
http://iphonetoolbox.com/news/hand-p...ent-resources/
http://ajaxian.com/archives/iphone-w...ation-released
http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/07/...or-the-iphone/
http://www.google.com/search?q=iphon...te+development